(b: Strijen, 1955)
A polymath in photography, music videos, feature films, graphic design and commercials, Dutchman Anton Corbijn is perhaps best known for immortalising some of the greatest artists of our time. His iconic portraits of musicians, directors and artists like Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Tom Waits, U2, the Rolling Stones, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Gerhard Richter, Ai Weiwei, Marlene Dumas amongst others, are praised for the way they capture the soul and charisma of his subjects.
Effortlessly moving in the early 80’s from photography into music videos Corbijn has since made over 80 promos for people like U2, Johnny Cash, Arcade Fire, Depeche Mode, Nirvana, Metallica, Nick Cave, Coldplay and The Killers. He is the Artistic Director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode. For U2 he has done the principal promotion and sleeve photography for four decades.
In 2006 Anton Corbijn started working on his first feature film “CONTROL” about the life, and death, of Ian Curtis, Joy Division’s lead singer. The film won many awards worldwide, including 5 BIFA’s & the Camera d’Or Special Mention at Cannes Film Festival 2007. Corbijn has since made “THE AMERICAN” starring George Clooney (2010), “A MOST WANTED MAN”, based on the novel by John Le Carré featuring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman (2014) and “LIFE”, about James Dean and photographer Dennis Stock, which stars Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan (2015).
Lately, Anton released his first feature documentary ’SQUARING THE CIRCLE’ about the iconic album art design studio Hipgnosis, in the USA already released in June ’23, and is planning to direct his fifth feature film titled “SWITZERLAND” in late 2023/early 2024.