Eric Klemm (b.1939) lives and works near Vancouver, British Columbia. He first studied graphic design in Trier, Germany, and turned seriously to photography in 1968 when he became affiliated with the legendary German magazine TWEN. Klemm contributed to top magazines as: Stern, Zeit Magazin, the German edition of Playboy, LUI, France and others. In 1972 he became a member of the prestigious Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Photographie.
Klemm has his work in private and corporate collections in Germany, Swiss, Canada, the USA and in international public galleries and museums as: the Portland Art Museum, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the National Portrait Gallery London, and the Saarland-Museum Saarbruecken, Germany, to name only a few.
Eric Klemm's work has been featured widely in numerous international solo and group exhibitions, including featured solo shows at the 2006 FotoFest Biennial in Houston, Texas, the 2006 Foto&Photo Photography Festival Cesano Maderno, Milan, Italy, and the 2008 CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, as well as a show in Paris.
Eric Klemm's break through came in 2009, when Steidl launched his book Silent Warriors - Portraits of North American Indians, at the Frankfurt International Book Fair. The project was awarded 1st prize at Prix de la Photographie Paris, already long before it got published. Despite the huge international success of Silent Warriors, with large spreads in Germany's top magazines as: Stern, Der Spiegel , European Photography, and many other international photo magazines and newspapers, Silent Warriors became Klemm's most significant and best known portrait work.
He continues to do what he loves best: large, painterly images which he calls tableaux. Most of the time the photographs are shot with a 1960 Swiss SINAR large format camera equipped with German Rodenstock lenses on hard to find 5x7 inch Kodak sheet film. This carefully taken photographs - often very long exposures - and the use of broken lenses reveal a particular colour palette of subdued colors and a unique beauty which appears to be a far cry away from our days digital imagery. Italian Journey was awarded 1st prize Landscape Portfolio at The Worldwide 2010 Annual Pollux Awards.
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