
People: For this years CommerzReal annual report Karsten Thormaehlen travelled to Paris, Warsaw, Mayence and Wiesbaden to photograph consultants of the company working – but also enjoying leisure time. (AD: Sandra Benz, 3st Kommunikation)
Commerz Real

Stillife: The 10-years anniversary Lufthansa WorldShop catalogue shows a potpourri of cover-motifs of past catalogues and Specials. 9 out of 36 were produced between 2008 and 2011 at studio55, Karsten Thormaehlen’s Frankfurt based stillife-photostudio. (Agency: Wunderman)
Lufthansa WorldShop

People: Wise. Inspiring. Beautiful. Margarethe Deichmann – the former secretary and youngest lady from Karsten Thormaehlen’s series “Happy at Hundred” – became this week’s cover girl of UK’s STYLIST magazine at the age of 100 years.
Stylist magazine
Helmut Wirz (BungeEmotion) in STERN magazine, no. 13/2010. Photos: Karsten Thormaehlen
People: “Bungee-Junkee” Helmut Wirz – from Karsten Thormaehlen’s photoseries SILVER HEROES – became headliner of WHO’s first ageing campaign launched on the occasion of WORLD HEALTH DAY, April 7, 2012. The 87 year old retired pharmacist loves to jump head first from high altitudes. The former pharmacist discovered bungee-jumping at the age of 75. “When I’m standing up there, I feel completely calm“, he says, despite the fact that he is only secured by a rubberband fixed to his legs. Helmut held the record as the oldest bungee jumper in the world for many years and is not planning to switch to playing chess or bowling any time soon. (Source: WHO.int; agency: byline)
World Health Day 2012

People: Für 3st Kommunikation fotografierte Karsten Thormaehlen die vier Vorstandsmitglieder der Symrise AG im einem der Testlabore in Holzminden (CD: Marcel Teine)

People: „Jumping head first from high altitudes is 87-year old Helmut Wirz’s passion. The former pharmacist discovered bungee-jumping at the age of 75. ‘When I’m standing up there, I feel completely calm’, he says, despite the fact that he is only secured by a rubber-band fixed to his legs. Mirta Nordet and her teenage grandson Damian are very close. When his 69-year-old grandmother offered to teach him his first salsa steps, Damian immediately said yes. ‘I want my grandchildren to learn as much as possible about the culture and traditions of my home country Cuba,’ says the retired ophthalmologist.” (Source: WHO) The WHO-posters – designed by Byline and photographed by Karsten Thormaehlen – challenge current stereotypes older people have to grapple with. (Agency: Byline, CD: Laxmi Panicker Graber)
World Health Organization
World Health Day 2012

Books: Überarbeitete Neuauflage des Buch- und Ausstellungserfolges „Jahrhundertmensch“ von Karsten Thormaehlen. Mit vielen neuen Porträts Hundertjähriger und Textbeiträgen u.a. von Ulla Rahn-Huber („So werden Sie 100 Jahre: Das Geheimnis von Okinawa“), dem Philosophen Wilhelm Schmid („Mit sich selbst befreundet sein”), dem Publizisten Henning von Vieregge („Der Ruhestand kommt später”), sowie der 101-jährigen Schriftstellerin Elfriede Brüning („Und ausserdem war es mein Leben: Bekenntnisse einer Zeitzeugin”). Das Covermotiv „Erika E., 101“ erhielt den von der National Portrait Gallery, London, ausgeschriebenen Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011. “Mit hundert hat man noch Träume” von Karsten Thormaehlen, Kehrer Verlag, 124 Seiten, Hardcover, 24 x 36 cm, ca. 60 Farb- u. s/w-Abbildungen, Sprachen Deutsch/Englisch. Erscheinungstermin September 2011 (ISBN 978-3-86828-243-6). Hier bestellen: info@studio-55.de
stern.de vom 8. Okt. 2011
zeit-online.de vom 27. Sept. 2011
TV-Beitrag von Manuela Christ in ZDF Volle Kanne am 26. Sep. 2011, 9:50 Uhr
TV-Beitrag von Uta Meyer in SWR Landesart am 1. Okt. 2011, 19:15 Uhr
TV-Beitrag von Sabine Willkop in SWR Nachtkultur am 4. Aug. 2011, 23:15 Uhr
Slanted Magazine #14 vom 18. Aug. 2011
Ausstellungstermine 2011/12, Synopsis Kehrer-Verlag