Photograph by Christopher Mertz
Kim Høltermand is a Danish photographer based in Copenhagen, working at the intersection of architecture, interior and documentation.
Høltermand’s photography is shaped by a profound sensitivity to form, space, and light—an architectural way of seeing that reveals the underlying structure of the world around him. His work is guided by a deep instinct for natural beauty, but it is in the built environment that he uncovers the quiet harmonies between human design and organic order. Høltermand’s compositions reflect an intuitive grasp of geometry, proportion, and materiality, capturing the way architecture mediates between permanence and impermanence, stillness and change.
Høltermand’s images exist in the threshold between motion and rest, offering a meditation on time through the lens of spatial experience. Whether photographing modernist facades, abandoned structures, or landscapes that blur the line between nature and intervention, he renders each subject with a distilled clarity. His photography is defined by an ability to articulate mood and atmosphere through structure—the way light moves across surfaces, the way negative space shapes perception, the way silence can be felt within a frame.
His approach was honed through years of practice, sharpening his perception across a variety of architectural contexts. Born in Copenhagen, Høltermand spent his early years moving between locations where his grandfather worked as an architect and his father, a talented illustrator, was always drawing. Later, he settled in Bagsværd, where he refined his ability to translate physical space into image.
What emerged was a photographic language that is at once minimal and expressive—an aesthetic that values restraint, yet remains deeply communicative. Høltermand moves fluidly between creative commissions for global brands and his own artistic practice, always seeking the underlying poetics of place.
Now based in Copenhagen, Høltermand finds resonance in the city’s paradoxes—the way vast urban sprawl coexists with the ever-present influence of landscape, the way light and shadow define space, the way modernist ideals persist within a culture of transience. It is here, between the built and the natural, that his practice continues to evolve, distilling architecture into image with a quiet, reverent precision.
Selected Clients
Apple, Instagram Design, Jacquemus, Zentropa, Frama, Heliot Emil, Arne Jacobsen, Harris, Planetarium, SAGA Space Architects, DTU Windenergy, HTC, Adobe, Adidas, Alchemist, Argon18, Apple Music, Ny Carlsbergfondet, Simian, til:værks, Fredrik Tydén, Emilie Bausager Landscapes, Studio Jakob Kvist, Udstillingsstedet Sydhavn Station, Sunday-S Gallery, Realdania By & Byg, Meris, Carlsbergfondet, Leth & Gori, K.B. Hallen, Ordrupgaard, DR Koncerthuset and more.
Selected Publications
Wallpaper*, T: The NYTimes Style Magazine, AD Germany, Ark Journal, Arkitekten, Dezeen, C41 Magazine, ICON Magazine, Bo Bedre, Forbes Japan, RUM, Dwell, Openhouse Magazine, Oak The Nordic Journal, L´Architecture d´Aujourd´hui (AA), Port Magazine, Baumeister, Politiken, Jyllandsposten, Euroman and more.
Selected Awards
2024 Architecture Nominee FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards, 2017 Fine Art Nominee FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards, 2017 Landscape Nominee FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards, 2017 2nd Place (Architecture) MonoVisions Photography Awards, 2016 Honorable Mention (Architecture Buildings) IPA International Photography Awards, 2010 1st Place (Landscape) IPA International Photography Awards, 2009 1st Place (Architecture Buildings) IPA International Photography Awards
For inquiries
kim@holtermand.dk