Biography
Identifying Anton as a Dutch photographer, film director, and music video director does not do justice to his work. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode, U2 & Coldplay which make him an icon of international Rock & Roll history and recently winner of the Abbey Road Music Photography Award.
His trusted friend Tom Waits once said; ‘Anton Corbijn is a cross between a Russian spy, a painter a gigolo and a priest, he’s a fly on the wall. He’s the king of the ball. He’s the King of them all’.
In his commercial work he created visual campaigns for Levis with Kate Moss, Dior Natalie Portman and G-Star with Magnus Carlsen and many, many more..
His direction of the films "Viva la Vida" (2008); the Ian Curtis biographical film Control (2007), The American (2010); A Most Wanted Man (2014), based on John le Carré's 2008 novel of the same name; and Life (2015), after the friendship between Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock and James Dean has made him one of the greatest European creatives of our age.
At the moment Anton is editing his latest film, most of it was shot in beautiful Rome.
