ERIC KLEMM is an accomplished artist, born 1939 in Germany. He studied graphic design, painting and photography at art school Trier, Germany, from 1956 – 1961. After working 7 years as an art director in Heidelberg, Germany, he turned seriously to photography in 1968, when a photograph of his was published in TWEN, one of Germany’s top magazines at the time.

He was offered a job at the magazine by Willi Fleckhaus, the influential art director. That same year Eric Klemm was awarded by the prestigious Art Directors Club New York for his TWEN – photograph.

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It was this image that jumpstarted his career. In 1974 Eric Klemm moved to Duesseldorf, Germany, at the time the center for the new European  avantgarde in photography. There he opened a studio to work with numerous advertising agencies and art directors. At the same time he contributed as a freelance photographer to top magazines such as: STERN, Die ZEIT, FREUNDIN, the French magazine LUI and the German edition of PLAYBOY. His best photographs were published in PHOTO and PROFESSIONAL CAMERA.

Eric Klemm became a member of the prestigious Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Photographie. He had established himself as one of Germany’s top magazine photographers.

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In 1976, Eric Klemm left Germany for Cocoa Island in the Maldives, which was to become his home for the next 15 years, there he lived the happy life of a modern Robinson Crusoe until he purchased a house in Dordogne, right in the heart of France, not far from Paris, to slowly return to art again. After having spent 7 years in France, it was in 1998 when he and his wife moved to British Columbia, Canada, looking for new adventures. Now living in their new home in West Vancouver, he was ready to start something exiting and fresh, something he had not done before: fine art photography.