Troy Schooneman is a Bangkok-based Australian artist whose work weaves beauty, myth, and memory through both classical fine art photography and contemporary digital portraiture. Born in Australia and shaped by decades in Thailand and Hong Kong, he balances a career in law with a lifelong artistic practice — a quiet and persistent devotion to the enduring beauty of the male form.

Between 2013 and 2020, Schooneman produced a body of photographic work that sought to restore the male nude to its rightful place of artistic reverence. Informed by the aesthetics of Ancient Greece and the idealism of the Renaissance, his portraits are intimate yet restrained — never voyeuristic, always timeless. As a gay artist, his engagement with the male figure is both personal and art-historical, part of a lineage that spans from classical statuary to the homoerotic imagery of the fin-de-siècle and beyond.

In recent years, Schooneman has transitioned into the digital realm, creating luminous portraits using AI and advanced image-making technologies. These works carry forward the emotional depth of his photography while exploring new textures, forms, and imaginative possibilities — liberated from physical constraints but grounded in the same emotional architecture: grace, vulnerability, and idealism.

His digital works move fluidly across moods and modes — from classical serenity to surreal unease, from romantic idealism to heightened theatricality. Yet all remain bound by a shared sensibility: a reverence for form, a fascination with interiority, and a belief in beauty as a means of contemplation and emotional connection.

Schooneman’s practice now spans two distinct media. His fine art photography is available as hand-signed, limited edition prints on museum-grade paper — tactile, enduring, and rare. His digital artworks, depending on the series, are offered either as collectible prints or as high-resolution downloads for collectors who prefer the immediacy of the intangible.

At the heart of all his work lies a singular impulse: to create stillness in a visually saturated world. Whether drawn from light or from code, Schooneman’s portraits speak in the language of longing — elegant, human, and timeless.