Tom Jacobi

Tom Jacobi, born 1956 in Bonn (Germany), started photographing when he was fifteen years old. After a short escapade into studying law, he joined the renowned photo agency »Sven Simon« in 1976, at the age of twenty. His main focus laid on taking portraits of leading German politicians, Willy Brandt, Ludwig Erhard, Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl being among them.

The following year was the starting point of his long career at »Stern, for which Jacobi worked first as a photographer until 1986. In total he created 29 covers for the magazine, won several awards for his influential work and was appointed to become a member of the »Art Directors Club Germany

During the following 14 years Tom Jacobi worked as a freelance photographer. He realised advertising and fashion campaigns and photographed for such magazines as »New York Times Magazine«, »The New Yorker« and »Vogue«. In the year 2000 he returned to »Stern as Art Director and member of the editorial board.

In the same year his exhibition »Where God Resides« was presented internationally and the accompanying coffee table book quickly became a bestseller. In 2005 Jacobi founded the magazine »View«, for which he worked until 2008 as editor-in-chief. Since then Tom Jacobi has been ...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
- Kunsthalle Dom Kultury, Bratislava (Slovakia), Oct. – Nov. 2019
- Ahoy! Art Gallery, Palma (Spain), Oct. – Nov. 2019
- The Photogallery, Halmstad (Sweden), Sept. – Nov. 2019
- SR Contemporary Art, Berlin (Germany), April – May 2019
- Petra Gut Contemporary, Zurich (Switzerland), Aug. – Oct. 2018
- Zingst Fotofestival, Zingst (Germany), May – Sept. 2018
- East Hotel, Hamburg (Germany), April – Sept. 2018
- Ostlicht Gallery, Vienna (Austria), March – May 2018
- Rosier Gallery, Berkeley (USA) , Oct. 2016 – Jan. 2017
- Zingst Fotofestival, Zingst (Germany), Aug. – Sept. 2016
- Camera Work Contemporary, Berlin (Germany), Jan. – April 2016
- Monastery Arnsberg (Germany), March 2009
- Studio 202, Brussels (Belgique), October 2005
- Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam (Netherlands), October 2005
- Telekom Headquarter, Bonn (Germany), June 2004
- Spazio Strato, Milano (Italy), May 2004
- Bertelsmann Headquarter, Berlin (Germany), April 2004
- Castle Heidelberg (Germany), July 2002
- Museum for Art & Crafts, Hamburg (Germany), December 2002


GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
- "Beyond The Air We Breath", Art & Culture Center, Bangkok, June - September 2018
- Werkhallen, Remagen, June - December 2017
- "C40 Mayors Summit 2016", Mexico City, November...