Michael Dweck is a contemporary American photographer and filmmaker. Though perhaps best known for his sensuous images of the female form, Dweck’s narrative photography explores on-going struggles between identity and adaptation in endangered societal enclaves. His work features a strong sense of place and community, and is often situated in a vivid geographic and social context.

Notable series of works include The End: Montauk, N.Y. (2004), a portrait of the famed fishing community that offers an idealized glimpse into its surfing subculture. In the artist’s Mermaids (2009) series, he depicts an underwater dreamscape in rural Florida. In Habana Libre (2010), Dweck documenting the contrast of the privileged lifestyles of Cuba’s creative class with the crumbling backdrop of a so-called “classless” society, which made him the first living American artist to have a solo museum exhibition in Cuba. His recent project, Blunderbust, explores the small-stakes stock car racetrack in a blend of sculpture, installation, abstract painting, photography, and film.

Dweck graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in 1979, and began his career in advertising and went on to become a celebrated creative director with 40 international awards, including the Gold Lion at the Cannes International Festival in France. Two of his long-form television pieces are part of the permanent film collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Michael Dweck lives in New York, NY and Montauk, NY.