Mathias
Kessler

Third-generation photographer with an MFA from SVA. Clients include Nike, Julius Bär, GQ, NY Times Magazine, Surface, and Herzog & de Meuron.

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Campaigns

Naturbewusst Leben

This year’s edition again centres on “Stay clean & take your litter home” — a season of activities around keeping the alpine landscape pristine.

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Campaigns
INDEX Selected work 2007 — 2026
01

Naturbewusst Leben
02

BAWAG P.S.K.
03

Sportloop
04

Nike
05

Wild Ones
06

Accessory
07

Gentlemen Globus Department Store
08

Hawai’i
09

A Jewish Wedding
10

Faces
11

Shoes splashes
12

Voyeur
13

Fur
14

Glo-Pop
15

Gloss
16

Fade to Grey
17

Kick it
18

Play
19

Milk
20

Arcadia
21

On Pointe
22

Weightless
23

Passenger
24

Drapery
25

Crowned
26

Musicians
27

Architecture
CLIENTS Selected
Nike Campaign · Shox XT
Tommy Hilfiger Campaign
Globus Department Store Brand · Switzerland
Glow Pop Campaign
Ed Meier Catalogue · Munich
Julius Bär Brand
Herzog & de Meuron Architecture
NMDA / Neil Denari Architecture
NY Times Magazine Editorial
GQ Germany Editorial
Surface Magazine Editorial
Die Zeit Editorial
Kleinwalsertal Tourismus Campaign
Gemeinde Mittelberg Tourism
Sportloop Campaign
Huber Trikot Brand
Richard Pandiscio Agency
Prosper Marketplace Brand

About

"I was growing up on someone else's holiday." Mathias Kessler (b. 1968, Austria) is a New York–based photographer whose work critically reimagines the relationship between human societies and the natural world.

Third-generation photographer. MFA from SVA. Exhibited internationally at Kunsthal Rotterdam, Kunsthaus Graz, and Columbus Museum of Art. His work appears in The New York Times, Die Zeit, Camera Austria, and Kunstforum International.

Fine art practice → mathiaskessler.com