Thomas Hoepker
studied art history and archeology, then worked as a photographer for Münchner Illustrierte and Kristall between 1960 and 1963, reporting from all over the world. He joined Stern magazine as a photo-reporter in 1964.
Magnum began to distribute Hoepker's archive photographs in 1964. He worked as cameraman and producer of documentary films for German television in 1972, and from 1974 collaborated with his wife, the journalist Eva Windmoeller, first in East Germany and then in New York, where they moved to work as correspondents for Stern in 1976. From 1978 to 1981 Hoepker was director of photography for the American edition of Geo.
Hoepker worked as art director for Stern in Hamburg between 1987 and 1989, when he became a full member of Magnum. Specializing in reportage and stylish color features, he received the prestigious Kulturpreis of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie in 1968. Among many other awards for his work, he received one in 1999 from the German Ministry of Foreign Aid for Death in a Cornfield, a TV film on Guatemala. Today Hoepker lives in New York. He shoots and produces TV documentaries together with his second wife Christine Kruchen. He was president of Magnum Photos from 2003 to 2006. A retrospective exhibition, showing 230 images from fifty years of work, toured Germany and other parts of Europe in 2007.
2019 Strange Encounters, in Focus Galerie, Köln
2018 Strange Encounters, Galerie STP, Greifswald
2017 Groupexhibition: Die fotografierte Ferne. Fotografen auf Reisen (1880-2015), Berlinische
Galerie, Berlin
2016 Thomas Hoepker: Amerika, Deutsches Fotomuseum, Leipzig
Galerie Bildhalle, Zürich, Schweiz, ALI AND BEYOND
2015 Thomas Hoepker & Elliot Erwitt, Kolvenburg, Billerbeck
Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST, Berlin, IMAGES WHICH STAY WITH US/ BILDER DIE BLEIBEN
2014 In Amerika - 1963-2013, in focus Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2014 Amerika, Fellbach/Stuggart, Germany
2009 Westlicht, Vienna, Austria
2008 Kunsthalle, Erfurt, Germany
2006 Photographien 1955-2005 - Photomuseum, Munich, Germany
2006 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
2004 Pace/MacGill, New York
1997 Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der BRD, Bonn, Germany
1996 Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
1995 Retrospective - Claus Tebbe Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1994 The Maya - Kunsthalle Cologne, Cologne, Germany
1988 photokina, Cologne, Germany
1985/87 Retrospective, 25 cities in Germany
1979 "Deutsche Fotografie nach 1945", Kassel
1977 Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
1976 Rizzoli Gallery, New York and Rizzoli Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
1965 Kunst und Gewerbe Museum, Hamburg, Germany
Champ - Muhammad Ali photographed by Thomas Hoepker, Peperoni Books, 2012
Thomas Hoepker: Heartland - An American Road Trip in 1963, Peperoni Books, 2013
Thomas Hoepker: New York, teNeues Verlag, Kempen, 2013
Thomas Hoepker, Rolf Winter: yatun papa, Vater der Indianer. Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1963.
Thomas Hoepker, Eva Windmöller: Leben in der DDR. Gruner und Jahr, Hamburg 1976.Thomas Höpker, Günter Kunert: Berliner Wände. Bilder aus einer verschwundenen Stadt. Hanser, München, Wien 1976, ISBN 3-446-12276-1.
Heinz Mack: Expedition in künstliche Gärten. Hamburg 1977 – (Skulpturen in extremen Landschaften).
Thomas Hoepker, Rolf Winter: Ansichten: Fotos von 1960 bis 1985. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1985, ISBN 3-921524-77-6.
Thomas Hoepker, Eva Windmöller: New Yorker: 50 außergewöhnliche Foto- und Textportraits. Ed. Stemmle, Schaffhausen 1987, ISBN 3-7231-0365-0.
Thomas Hoepker, Freddy Langer: Land der Verzauberung: Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ellert und Richter, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-89234-288-1.
Return of the Maya: Guatemala – A Tale of Survival. Stockport 1998.
Thomas Hoepker, Ulrich Pohlmann: Thomas Höpker 1955-2005. Schirmer + Mosel, München 2005, ISBN 3-8296-0219-7. (Ausstellungskatalog, 272 S., 195 z.T. farb. Fototafeln, Retrospektive über fünfzig Jahre Reportagefotografie).
Thomas Hoepker: DDR Ansichten – Views of a Vanished Country. Hatje/Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2813-3.
Günter Kunert: Berliner Kaleidoskop. Aufzeichnungen. Photographien von Thomas Hoepker. Verlag Thomas Reche, Neumarkt 2011, ISBN 978-3-929566-97-0.