He has directed five feature films, dozens of pop videos and photographed everyone from Nelson Mandela to Dutch royalty and nude supermodels. But Anton Corbijn’s career is grounded in music photography, which allowed him to escape the Netherlands, where he was the son of the village’s Dutch Reform Church minister.
“At the time, my vision of everything was so narrow-minded. All I wanted to do was take photographs and be successful. I lived in a squat in London. I lived in a brothel in Holland. It was not easy because I was making very hard, black and white pictures just when all this colourful stuff came up with Bowie
