Photo by Ulalume Woudt
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Vienna-trained photographer Nathalie Schueller is inspired by her first passion: people. Whether photographing Bill Clinton for Austria’s weekly magazine News, or taking an image of a kid squirming at a birthday party, Schueller attempts to capture more than just her subject’s face but his or her unfiltered personality. “When a connection between my subjects and myself emerges, then I know the photograph will show something beyond the exterior they present to the world,” she says.
Born in Vienna, Austria, Schueller has a B.F.A. in photography. After assisting several influential photographers in Paris (Claus Wickrath), Vienna (Gerhard Heller), and New York City (George Holz; James White), she settled in New York City in 1993. Here she continues to work for leading European and American magazines on a host of assignments. These include photographing people: celebrities (Donny Deutsch, Donald Trump); authors (Tom Wolfe; John Irving); and financial experts (Ed Yardeni; Jim Rogers), and events ranging from the Viennese Opera Ball to U.N. meetings with world leaders such as Kofi Annan and Henry Kissinger. The first American publication to print her work was The New Yorker.
“I’ve worked in still life, fashion, advertising, journalism, and I always come back to the portraits,” she says, reflecting upon her own work.
After Schueller had her two daughters, she began to photograph families and children, extending her range into the private sphere. Her approach toward photographing children is non-intrusive, yet personalized, resulting in images that are remarkable for both their penetrating humanity and their aesthetic beauty. |
