Schmidt primarily captures austere, coastal landscapes, but has recently developed a body of work focused on still life, as seen in his 2015 solo exhibit Dorothy Jean at Guy Lyman Fine Art in New Orleans. He has documented Hurricane Katrina and newly added his abstract Storm collection to his portfolio. In 2021 his focus has been macro photography with his large format Secret Garden series as well as his intimate portraiture work, The.Human.Being. His work has been shown nationally in Tucson, AZ; Molena and Atlanta, GA; Monroe, Lafayette, Breaux Bridge, Covington, Grand Isle and New Orleans, LA; Seaside and Naples, FL; San Jose and Los Angeles, CA; Attleboro, MA; Huntsville, AL; Cape Girardeau, MO; Wichita, KS; Johnson City, TX; Minneapolis, MN; Nashville, TN; Middlebury and Essex Junction, VT; Portland, OR; Cooperstown and New York, NY and internationally in Athens and Crete, Greece; Barcelona, Spain and Budapest, Hungary. His photographs have also been used in the 2013 film Ender’s Game, in the January 2012 issue of IQ Magazine, and in Chrysler’s Super Bowl XLVI half-time commercial starring Clint Eastwood. His work has been reviewed in Art Voices (Issue 21, 2009) and Pelican Bomb (November 2015).
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