KLAUS THYMANN FOR BIG MAGAZINE
In the beaming sun Klaus captured the shots of snowboarders competing in the Burton European Open in Laax, Switzerland.
In the beaming sun Klaus captured the shots of snowboarders competing in the Burton European Open in Laax, Switzerland.
Klaus worked with McCann Erickson Poland on an international campaign for Powerade Zero, designated to the forthcoming 2012 Olympic Games. 
With the beginning of the year Klaus debuted his new website. Visit www.thymann.com to see the portfolio divided into 2 subpages: one for art projects and the other for commercial works. 
Commissioned by The New York Times, Klaus spent time in Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza town, documenting a group of athletes and acrobats calling themselves the Gaza Parkour Team. With political turmoils, mistrust and war raging around, they practise on the local graveyard which serves as their training ground. Under the sky where Israeli drones [...]
Klaus ventured to the glaciers of Juneau, Alaska to shoot an editorial for PORT magazine and to talk with the men of that place about their sense of beauty and life in the far north, incomparable to any other.
The recent images for the Dutch eyewear brand Orgreen look like they are from the moon’s surface, but it’s only Iceland whose lunar surroundings were used by Klaus to shoot the campaign.
For the warm up issue Klaus captured a bunch of youngsters hanging around and having fun at a 2012 Olympic venue, the Lee Valley White Water Centre.
In Los Angeles Klaus photographed a global campaign for Lenovo tablets.
The images which make up the project documenting the architecture of Freetown Christiana, the self-proclaimed anarchistic neighbourhood of the Danish capital Copenhagen. A detailed description of the idea and exhibition information can be found in one of the posts below.
Thymann’s project is a study in multiplicity and tolerance, the idea that cities can exist within cities. Using photography as the medium to document the Danish freetown Christiania he focuses is on the anarchistic architecture to show that a city can have a second layer, even a relatively small city such as Copenhagen. The project was [...]