Michael Limbert

I was born May, 1969 in Niles, Michigan, a town famous for being the home of French Paper, Simplicity Patterns, The Dodge Brothers, Tommy Shaw of Styx and Tommy James & The Shondells. (Naturally, great things were expected.) In 1992, I earned a BA in English (with a concentration in Japanese) from Kalamazoo College and immediately got sidetracked, becoming an advertising creative in Chicago. It was there I entered the world of automotive photography, shooting open-wheel race cars for Team Penske on the CART and IRL circuits in the US and Canada, as well as directing closed-set sessions. In 2002 I self-published WAVE, a limited run book of images from a year’s worth of US travels. In between subsequent work moves to LA, NYC, Chicago and Detroit, I performed in the US and Europe with the band FORTUNE AND MALTESE. Currently, I’m shooting images of “environmental isolation” for myself, future projects and such publications as NRC Handelsblad, The Sun, Paste Magazine, and The Detroit Metro Times.