Education
Schulman started taking pictures and became involved with photography after having studied dance for 5 years.
Schulman started taking pictures and became involved with photography after having studied dance for 5 years.
He is best known for the 2010 documentary Catfish. He is also the host and executive producer to the follow up television series Catfish: The television Show on Music Television. In 2004, Schulman started photographing dance as he became involved with the contemporary ballet community in New York City. The premise followed Schulman on the journey of falling in love with a girl he meets on the internet, but later finds out that she may not be exactly who she claimed to be.
Schulman is of German and Romanian Jewish descent.
Schulman is a founding member of the Young Leadership Committee for the youth organization, Leave Out Violence.