“Photography duo Markus Klinko & Indrani have become notorious for producing iconic images” (Arena). Their imagery has been described as “a powerful dream vision – seamless, erotic, unforgettable, the work of two contemporary masters”.
Isabella Blow discovered Markus and Indrani’s fashion photography, and gave them their first magazine cover for the London Sunday Times. David Bowie commissioned their first album cover for ‘Heathen’. Markus and Indrani then created award-winning covers for Beyonce’s solo debut ‘Dangerously in Love’, Mariah Carey’s ‘Emancipation of Mimi’ and Mary J Blige’s ‘The Breakthrough’, which all became top selling albums of the year.
The duo’s recent subjects include Will Smith, Kate Winslet, Katie Holmes, Kate Beckinsale, Eva Mendes, Anne Hathaway, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, Christina Aguilera, Keanu Reeves, Matt Dillon, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Val Kilmer, Outkast, Jay-Z, and Kanye West. Their advertising clients include Elizabeth Arden, Hugo Boss, Anna Sui, Shiseido, L’Oreal Paris, Pepsi, Nike, Puma, Pantene, Baume-et-Mercier, De Beers; and their work is seen in numerous publications including Arena, Flaunt, Interview, V Magazine, Vanity Fair and Vogue.
BIO
French-Hungarian Markus Klinko was born in Switzerland, began piano at 3, studied harp at the Paris National Conservatory, and had an illustrious career as one of the world’s top classical harp soloists, releasing award-winning CDs for EMI Classic, and playing at concerts around the globe. In 1994, after receiving the “Grand Prix du Disque” for his last recording with the Paris Opera Bastille Orchestra, Markus decided to follow his passion and began a career in photography. He met Indrani and they began their extraordinary relationship and collaboration.
Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta and raised in India and Canada. At 14, she began a successful career as a fashion model, traveling the world to work with great photographers and artists, while studying philosophy, meditation, photography and film, and pursuing her own photography. In 1997 Indrani founded a charitable school with her father in their ancestral home in Bengal, India. Then she earned a BA in Anthropology at Princeton University, while mastering post-production in Paris and New York, and developing with Markus their unique photographic style.
PHILANTHROPY
SEEschool.org Indrani founded the non-profit Shakti Empowerment Education to provide free education for 300+ children and women, microfinancing, a library and a homeopathic dispensary, in West Bengal, India. Markus and Indrani are Advisory Board Members of Marriage Equality, and Indrani walks in Runway for Red Dress benefit for the American Heart Association. Markus and Indrani are dedicated to Keep A Child Alive, donating their photography to shoot the “Mother Africa” campaign to raise awareness and help provide life-saving anti-retroviral treatment, care and support services to children and their families with HIV/AIDS in Africa and the developing world.
NEWS
Bravo’s newest docu-series “Double Exposure” follows Markus and Indrani, giving viewers a taste of all that is fashionable, provocative and iconic in the fast-paced world of high fashion and celebrity photography. Scheduled to air in early 2010.