with Lee Ielpi, Pete Hamill, Karl Rove and more on Sep 11, 2003
with Richard Drew, David Handschuh, Jay Maisel and more on Oct 31, 2001
Thomas Höpker is a German photographer and director who, in 1989, became a full member in the agency Magnum Photo. From 1987 to 1989, Hoepker worked as art director for “Stern” in Hamburg, and became a full member of Magnum in 1989. Specializing in reportage and stylish color features, he has received numerous awards for his work, including the prestigious ‘Kulturpreis’ of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Photographie in 1968. In 1999, he received a first prize award from the German ministry of foreign aid for Death in a Cornfield, a TV film on Guatemala. Today Hoepker shoots and produces TV documentaries together with his wife Christine Kruchen. He was president of Magnum Photos from 2003 to 2006.
Source-Magnum Photos http://www.magnumphotos.com/archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.Biography_VPage&AID=2K7O3R13ZFL3
