Born in Munich, Germany, in 1968. Today, he lives and works in New York. He grew up in Germany where he was deeply influenced by August Sander’s portraits of poor people from the working and middle classes, as well as by Bernd and Hilla Becher, founders of the Becher-Schüler school. From 1993 to 1996, Schoeller worked as an assistant to Annie Leibovitz. Schoeller’s photographs have won numerous awards from esteemed committees such as the Society of Publication Designers, Communication Arts, American Photography, Photo District News, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, and the American Society of Magazine Editors.
