Jakob (b.1991, Germany), works in the fields of editorial, portrait and documentary photography. He studied documentary photography and photojournalism in Hanover/Germany and Tomsk/Russia. His work focusses, beside assignments, on conceptual photography in long-term projects mainly dealing with societal structures and economy.
His editorial clients include GEO, DER SPIEGEL, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, DeVolkskrant, 6mois, DIE ZEIT, WIRED, Wallpaper*, DUMMY, among others. Jakob has been awared with a bronze medal at German Photobook Award 2018, was shortlisted for the Sony World Photo Awards, Professional competition, creative category in 2018 and finalist for the LensCulture Exposure Awards. He was selected as a LensCulture Emerging Talent in 2016. His work was among the selection for Prix Voies Off and Freelens Award, and he won the first place at German Youth Photo Prize in 2015 and 2016. Jakob is based in Münster, Germany.
