Klaus Thymann was born on 1974 and is a Danish explorer, scientist, fellow at The Explorers Club, fellow at the Royal Geographical Society, photographer, filmmaker and creator.
30 Facts About Klaus Thymann
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Klaus Thymann has developed an original viewpoint utilising a cross-disciplinary skillset that combines journalism, image making, mapping, documentary and exploration with a focus on contemporary issues and the climate emergency.
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Klaus Thymann was awarded with the Sony World Photography Award in 2013 and was the youngest winner of the Scandinavian Kodak Gold Award in 1996.
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Klaus Thymann attended Marie Kruses Skole in Farum, Denmark where he graduated in 1993.
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In 1996, Klaus Thymann was the recipient of the Scandinavian Kodak Gold Award.
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Klaus Thymann received a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental studies from The Open University in 2015.
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Klaus Thymann was awarded with the 2000 Danish Music Awards in the Danish Music Video of the Year category for the video and the video was nominated for a MTV award.
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Klaus Thymann has conducted the only scuba dive of the world's clearest lake in New Zealand and made several discoveries as he conducts exploration with a scientific purpose.
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Klaus Thymann is a fellow at The Explorers Club of New York, a designation he earned through his significant discoveries, including finding corals in Danish waters, prehistoric human bones deep inside a submerged Mexican cave system, and an unexplored manatee habitat in the Yucatan.
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Klaus Thymann has revealed equatorial glaciers by trekking a new route into Congo DRC and reported unnamed glaciers in Nepal.
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Klaus Thymann has conducted the only scuba dive of the world's clearest lake in New Zealand, documented tourism in Iraq, parkour in Gaza, the relocation of the Arctic town Kiruna In Sweden and explored the glaciers of Uganda and Congo via new trekking routes.
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Klaus Thymann is comfortable confronting the limits of the human body, both as a climber summiting oxygen-deprived peaks above 6300m and as a technical diver capable of navigating in deep waters, below ice, and in narrow flooded caves.
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Klaus Thymann has revealed the impact of mining in the Arctic through the story of long-time residents and Sami reindeer herders.
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Klaus Thymann has guest lectured at Oxford University, University of St Andrews, The Photographers' Gallery, Central St Martin's College of Art and Design, Hong Kong University, Rome University, Cancun University, University of the Arts London, Natural History Museum Vienna.
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Klaus Thymann is a Hasselblad Ambassador and has served on the board of organizations such The Design and Artists Copyright Society, UNICEF, Extinction Rebellion and Red Cross.
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In 2007, Klaus Thymann completed a four year documentation and published Hybrids, an art project featuring documentary photography with a global perspective exploring peculiar hybrid cultures around the planet, such as Snow Polo in St Moritz, Gay Rodeo in Los Angeles, Underwater Striptease in Chile, Underground Gardening in Tokyo and more.
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In 2008, Klaus Thymann founded Project Pressure, a global environmental charity dedicated to highlight the impact of climate change, inspiring action and participation.
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Klaus Thymann has uncovered glaciers by trekking a new route into Congo and a applying historic maps onto a GPS device and Thymann's team traversed Congolese side of the range, where practically no one has been for decades because of insurgency and war.
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Klaus Thymann documented that glaciers have retreated massively on the east side of the mountains and the meltdown is super-intense with less than one kilometer square of ice remaining.
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Klaus Thymann is the only person known to have conducted a scuba dive in the world's clearest lake, Blue Lake in New Zealand.
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In 2015, for the images taken during this expedition, Klaus Thymann received Honorable Mention at the International Photography Awards.
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Since 2008, Klaus Thymann has led expedition to detail the glaciers in remote regions to show that climate change is a global issue.
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Klaus Thymann has led expeditions to Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, United States, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Spain, Uganda, Greenland, Iran, New Zealand, Nepal, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia.
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Since 2016, Klaus Thymann is exploring underwater rivers on the Yucatan in Mexico.
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Klaus Thymann wrote and directed a long-format documentary film of this form of environmental exploration, Flows, with music by Thom Yorke.
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In 2022, Klaus Thymann discovered a new manatee habitat within the cenotes and documented the discovery with a 12-minute film that is available on the interactive streaming platform WaterBear.
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In 2019, Klaus Thymann dived the nuclear wrecks in the Bikini Atoll at 65 meters depth.
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In 2019, Klaus Thymann-led global charity Project Pressure was responsible for the Voices For The Future, an art piece projected and transmitted on the UN building, featuring Swedish student activist Greta Thunberg in New York City in the lead-up to the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit.
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Klaus Thymann authored the messages of six young activists, including an authorized edit of Thunberg's words.
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In 2020, Klaus Thymann led seafloor mapping project at Jammerbugt coast in Jutland, Denmark where he discovered an abundance of dead man's fingers, the only soft coral found in Danish waters.