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Biography
Eric Klemm
(b.1939) is an accomplished artist with over 30 solo
exhibitions in Canada, the USA and Europe. Feature exhibitions at:
FotoFest Biennial Houston, the Photography Festival Cesano Maderno,
Milan, Italy, and the Contact Toronto Photography Festival.
The German Goethe Institute did show his project Metamorphosis
in Paris followed by a travelling exhibition through 10 French cities.
Klemm has his work in private and corporate collections in Germany,
Switzerland, Canada, the USA, and 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,
Saarbrucken, Germany, to name only a few. Eric Klemm made 6
photo books. The best known: Silent Warriors - Portraits of North
American Indians, published by STEIDL, the project was awarded
1st prize at Prix de la Photographie Paris.
Eric Klemm first studied graphic design in Trier, Germany, and switched
to photography in1968. His long career began when he caught the
attention of the famous art director Willy Fleckhaus at the German
magazine TWEN. After living on a tropical Island of the Maldives and
in Dordogne, France, he moved 1998 to Canada and now lives and
works near Vancouver, British Columbia.
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