»ARUK« backlit photograph in a burnished steel corpus Photograph

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 pursuing his artistic career. He lives and works in Hamburg. In 2014 he started working on his trilogy »Awakening«, which is composed of three parts: »Grey Matter(s) «, »Into the Light« and »The Light Within«. So far there are two coffee table books published from those series. In 2016 he was awarded as “Photographer of the Year” at the »Moscow International Foto Awards«. Since 2020 he works on his current project »Heavenwards – Famous trees of our world«.