This collection featuring 52 portraits of people who are 100 years old and older, from many different countries and ethnicities, is the latest output of my long term photo project displaying portraits (and short-bios) of centenarians. Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, publishing date: March 7, 2017. Images: 1. Tonaki Tsuru, born October 1, 1913, Nanjo, Okinawa Islands, Japan; 2. Gaspare Mele, poet, born April 29, 1911, Orotelli, Sardinia / Italy; Gisèle Casadesus, actress, born June 14, 1914, Paris; 4. Sigurgeir Jónsson, born March 1915, Reykjavik, Iceland
As a trained Graphic Designer, Karsten Thormaehlen has worked as an art and creative director in New York, Paris, Berlin and Hamburg. As commercial photographer he's based in Frankfurt, Germany, and is taking up assignments of architecture, corporate, people and still life photography. As an artist his main focus lies on 'successful aging' and sociocultural trends of ageing societies. His exhibition ‘Happy at Hundred’, celebrating men and women over the age of 100, has travelled across Europe. Through photography Karsten tells stories of individuals, communities and places that have inspired and resonated with people across the globe.
