A BIT ABOUT ME.

During junior high school I was fortunate to have a graphic arts teacher, Mr. Quick, who introduced my to typesetting, letterpress printing, design and photography. This inspired my first career move in the form of a self-designed and printed business card with the slogan We take the picture, you just smile.

A few years later, a fortune teller in Kathmandu, Nepal, stole my camera. I stopped taking pictures but was far too busy being interested in India to worry about it. The fortune teller did promise me a happy life and so far that worked out as predicted so I can’t complain.

Later, when I was working professionally in advertising I shot a bit to fill in the needs of the job. This led to journalistic work culminating in feature stories for Vanedades (Latin America) and Burda (Germany) magazines. Switching careers, I spent a couple busy decades traveling the world as a literary agent and as a publisher with scarcely a picture to prove it.

Eventually my wife bought me a roll of film for Christmas and told me to go out and take some pictures. Fortunately, my Pentax Spotmatic never failed and I took the picture above. [Then more, mostly interesting, things happened.]

One day I needed photos for a book I was designing and told the client to buy me a camera instead of hiring a photographer. I got a Fujifilm X-E1 and have been shooting with Fujifilm cameras and mostly old Leica, Canon and Nikon lenses for the past few years.

I like it when people feel that they look good in my pictures, I like to tell a story, and I like moments, real or imagined, when I capture a feeling worth revisiting.

I hope you find a picture that you like among these images.

Thanks for looking.

Michael Metzler

PS. By the way, I continue to take new marketing, design and book packaging commissions. If you have a project you would like to discuss please use the contact form to get in touch.