Michael A. Schwarz is an independent editorial, and corporate photojournalist based in Atlanta,Georgia. Over a 25-year career, Michael has completed more than 6,000 assignments for publications like USA Today, Fortune, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, LIFE, National Geographic, The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, U. Read More...S. News & World Report, Business Week and Forbes. His corporate clients have included The Home Depot, Nike, UPS and The Coca-Cola Company.

Michael A. Schwarz is a 3-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, has received numerous awards from the National Press Photographers Association's Pictures of the Year competition and was a winner of the Dag Hammarskjöld Award for Human Rights Advocacy Journalism. LIFE Magazine chose Michael as one of the ten best young photographers in the U.S. He collaborated with writer Ellen Spears on the book "The Newtown Story:One Community's Fight for Environmental Justice.," published in 1998.

Schwarz is a Baltimore native and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He has served on the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar and was a co-founder of Weddingbureau.com.

He is currently doing digital photography consulting for professionals and consumers through his affiliation with Blue Pixel and is a featured instructor of the Nikon Digital School.