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Thomas Hoepker at Photokina

Join Thomas Hoepker for an artist talk on the effect of digital and post digital on modern photography at Photokina with the Creative Alliance, an alliance of six high-profile companies focused on the professional photography market. The Creative Alliance has partnered with photokina and Koelnmesse to present educational sessions on a daily basis during photokina 2010. Visitors at the Creative Alliance Theatre located in Hall 4.1, stand I-010, can take advantage of seven educational sessions with well-known photo professionals and experts beginning hourly from 11 AM. In these sessions, visitors will learn about important technical trends, how to achieve stunning results using advanced techniques, and how to market their business in today’s fast-paced world.

In addition, experts will be available for evening discussion groups in a more intimate setting that will allow one-on-one interaction and to better address the individual informational and technological questions of the attendees.

The Creative Alliance consists of Adobe, Hewlett-Packard, Nikon, Nik Software, Wacom and X-Rite.

About Thomas Hoepker:
Thomas Hoepker studied art history and archeology, then worked as a photographer for Münchner Illustrierte and Kristall between 1960 and 1963, reporting from all over the world. He joined Stern magazine as a photo-reporter in 1964.

Magnum began to distribute Hoepker's archive photographs in 1964. He worked as cameraman and producer of documentary films for German television in 1972, and from 1974 collaborated with his wife, the journalist Eva Windmoeller, first in East Germany and then in New York, where they moved to work as correspondents for Stern in 1976. From 1978 to 1981 Hoepker was director of photography for the American edition of Geo.

Hoepker worked as art director for Stern in Hamburg between 1987 and 1989, when he became a full member of Magnum. Specializing in reportage and stylish color features, he received the prestigious Kulturpreis of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie in 1968. Among many other awards for his work, he received one in 1999 from the German Ministry of Foreign Aid for Death in a Cornfield, a TV film on Guatemala. Today Hoepker lives in New York. He shoots and produces TV documentaries together with his second wife Christine Kruchen. He was president of Magnum Photos from 2003 to 2006. A retrospective exhibition, showing 230 images from fifty years of work, toured Germany and other parts of Europe in 2007.