Markus Klinko’s 30-year career as a multi award-winning film, music and fashion photographer is unparalleled, with credits in the likes of Vogue and Vanity Fair. He is a man who has an unwavering ambition to document pop culture, and he has certainly achieved those goals — he’s taken pictures of everyone, from Beyonce, David Bowie, Jennifer Lopez and Lady Gaga to Mariah Carey, Kanye West, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige, Anne Hathaway, Kate Winslet and Pamela Anderson — to name but a few.
In our culture of celebrity worship, Markus feels his mission is “to hold up a mirror and reflect back on our obsession with fame as a religion” — and this is apparent with his recent collaboration with Kim Kardashian and luxury tech-fashion house Auroboros. His latest avatar photographs with the Skims mogul proves that this Swiss-born titan of photography is a force to be reckoned with. Markus’s work is often suffused with allusions to mythology as a way of exploring how that ‘religion of fame’ is explored.
Our sister magazine Chic sat down with Markus before his unveiling of Kim and RnB sensation Usher’s latest images in London’s Saatchi Gallery to discuss Bowie, The Gallagher brothers and lending Beyonce his jeans...
but, first, how did he get Kim to bare all for this new collection? “We created these avatar images of Kim Kardashian and Usher, so these are brand new works that the world has never seen before,” Klinko told us. “I’m particularly excited. “Kim.
