Michael R Soluri is a documentary photographer who visually explores obscure locations, objects and micro cultures by often confounding representation through abstraction to explore shape, form, meaning and memory.

He is also a picture editor, author, and speaker. His current film-based project is a meditation on the transcendence of time in context to the hidden surfaces and symbols photographically explored under 1960’s era launchpads.

His assignments and projects have taken him into cultures not only across America, through Europe, India and Brazil, but also into the restricted, behind the scene work cultures of human and robotic spaceflight.

For over two decades Michael has portrayed the humanity and craft behind the scenes of NASA. His experience brings not only trust, but measurable skill in knowing how to photograph in secure, limited access and unusual work environments that result in unscripted images that reveal a visual sense of craft and humanity.

His portrait, travel, fashion, still life editorial photography has appeared in numerous American, European, and Brazilian print and online media like National Geographic, WIRED(USA/UK), Smithsonian Magazine, New York Times, The Washington Post, New Scientist (UK),Time, Discover, Air & Space Magazine, NPR, Huffington Post Highline, Ciel et Espace, Family Circle, Mother Earth News, Grazia, Amica, Vogue Brasil and Claudia.

Michael is a Simon & Schuster author of Infinite Worlds - the People and Places of Space Exploration, a coffee table book of portraits, narrative text and unscripted photographs on the labor, craft, tools and humanity behind the last ever space shuttle mission that essentially saved the Hubble Space Telescope. Former astronaut and Senator John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, wrote the introduction.

Eight mural size images from his series on "astronaut space tools as sculpture" are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC.

Mural size photographs from "Cave Art Continuum" were exhibited in Lucca Italy at Photolux 2019, and in SHUTTLE at the South East Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, FL.

Photographs from his documentation of NASA's New Horizons Pluto Mission and the last Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission have been published in Taschen's The NASA Archives: 60 Years in Space by Piers Bizony.

A 25 page Epilogue, "New Horizons: An Abbreviated Photographic Journal" has been published in The Pluto System After New Horizons by the University of Arizona Press.

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Based on his participation in the historic STS 125 / Hubble SM4 mission, Michael received a NASA commendation— signed by NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden: "... for contributions that rival the best that NASA has achieved in innovation and overcoming challenges."

And, as a result of photographically documenting the New Horizons mission to the Pluto System since 2005, Soluri received a Group Achievement Award "for exceptional contributions in the successful completion of the initial reconnaissance of the Pluto system ..."

His corporate sponsors have included: Legion/Moab papers, Canon USA, EIZO, Cineo Lighting, Glyph Technologies and LiveBooks.

Catalogued by the Minor Planet Center at Harvard’s Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the asteroid 2001 QL307 — located between Mars and Jupiter — has been named Soluri 187981