Doris Kloster is a world-recognized photo artist whose unique vision has found expression in art books of her own conception, exhibitions, installations and films. She has also worked as a commercial photographer, shooting editorial features, print advertising, record albums and book covers in London, Paris, Milan and New York City.
Four books dedicated to Kloster's work have been published. The self-titled book of her photographs, Doris Kloster was published in 1995 by Taschen Verlag, Cologne, Germany. Her second book of photographs, Forms of Desire, was published by St. Martin's Press in New York in September 1998. Kloster's third book, published in 2001, by St. Martin's Press and La Musardine in Paris, is The Illustrated Story of O, which features excerpts of original text by Pauline Réage. Her most recent book, Doris Kloster's Demimonde, was published 2003 by Carlton Books UK. Work by Kloster was included in the catalog for the Centre Georges Pompidou exhibition Fémininmasculin, Le Sexe de L'Art, October 1995, Paris, France. Her work has also appeared in the Graz Stadtmuseum exhibition, Phantom der Lust, as well as the exhibition catalog.
Kloster's media experience include co-founding and editing FAD Magazine, a large-format chronicle of contemporary culture. She hosted a television version of FAD, Doris' Demimonde, on Manhattan cable television and has been profiled on the HBO television series Real Sex.
Kloster served as president of the Jury for International Films at the 2001 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in France, where Temptation, one of her films was shown. Temptation was also shown at the Tubinen 9. Internationales kurz film fest in Germany. She also exhibited at Horror & Fantasy Film Festival at the Donostia Kultura in San Sebastian, Spain.
Currently, Kloster is a guest lecturer in photography at Parsons School of Design in Paris and in the summer teaches a graduate level seminar in photography at Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Santander, Spain.