That enables viewers to compare the faces of the genetically identical. He took pictures of twins side by side in his typical “close up” style. Thereafter Martin Schoeller visited the National Twins Day Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio to capture twins, triplets and quadruplets. The book is based on a project that first appeared in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic. Martin Schoeller lives and works in New York City.“ Identical: Portraits of Twins” is a new monograph by the well known photographer Martin Schoeller with a foreword written by artist Marina Abramović.
and are included in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. His portraits are exhibited and collected internationally, including in several solo exhibitions in Europe and the U.S. There, he continues to produce his award-winning images.
Schoeller joined Richard Avedon as a contributing portrait photographer at The New Yorker in 1999. His work gained recognition for its strong visual impact and has been feautred in Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, and W, among other publications since 1998. He continued to advance as a freelance photographer, producing portraits of people he met on the streets. Schoeller worked as an assistant to Annie Leibovitz from 1993 to 1996. Growing up in Germany, he was deeply influenced by August Sander's numerous portraits of the working classes and the bourgeoisie, as well as by the photography of Bernd and Hilla Becher, who spawned a school known as the Becher-Schüler. Martin Schoeller was born in Munich in 1968.
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