Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1959, Bill Schwab’s fascination with photography began at an early age. With a Kodak Brownie and a home darkroom kit received as a gift from his father, he taught himself to process film and contact print at age twelve.

Following a high school curriculum emphasizing the arts, he began his extended education earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography and graphic design from Central Michigan University in 1983. 

It was during this period that Schwab spent a time in New York working with and assisting under commercial/fine art photographer Alen MacWeeney. Having become familiar with the photographer’s work through the pages of Aperture and American Photography, he saw in it a similar style to his own.

Working in the city proved an enlightening as well as exciting experience in that it not only   (Click Arrow at Right for More)