About The Artist

SVEN JACOBSEN PHOTOGRAPHER / VISUAL ARTIST BORN IN 1969 1997 EXAM IN ARCHITECTURE 1999 FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER Sven Jacobsen´s photography is distinguished by a strong draw back to more simplicity and awareness. It is a radical demand to preserve genuine truth in an over-engineered world, which he strives to capture in his pictures. He tries to find bliss in the simplest things and aesthetics of the moment, , in order to render a mood visible. he is mostly concerned with emotionality, lightness and authenticity. For him it is important finding the essence of things, going back to ones roots, back home, embracing imperfections and spreading warmth and truth. This is what he portrays in his emotional and warm picture language, which defies the modern day need for perfection. His images are something of an homage to a world that is very close and beckons daily and the loveliness that can be found in it. Exhibitions 2018 Single Exhibition `personal icons`, Galerie im öffentl. Raum Messe hh, Hamburg 2016 Single Exhibition `africa`, pitti immagine 2016 Firenze 2014 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014,Nat.Portrait Gallery London 2012 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012,Nat.Portrait Gallery London 2012 Voies Off, Arles France 2010 Single Exh.`Thats A Piece Of Cake` Play,Hamburg 2010 „Slideluckshow“ Mmx, Berlin 2007 „Slideluckshow“ Sand Box Studios,New York City 2005 Single Exh. ´Disco` Gallery Scorpion,Hamburg 2004 Single Exh. ´Safari` Aplanat Gallery,Hamburg 2003 Canon Profashional Award,Cologne,Munich,Berlin 2002 John Kobal Award,National Portrait Gallery London 2002 Bff Exhibition Photokina Cologne 2001 John Kobal Award,National Portrait Gallery London 2001 Reinhart Wolf Preis 2001,Hamburg And Berlin 2000 Bff Exhibition Photokina Cologne 1999 Kodak Portrait Award_2 Price 1998 Single Exhibition `Heine`Hamburg Bookprojects 2018 Peronals Icons, 96 Pages 300x300mm Seltmann Und Söhne Verlag Berlin 2012 Back To Mama, 272 Pages 300x240mm Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg / Berlin 2008 I Love, 144 Pages, 113 Images,Size 300 X 210mm 2007 Artbuyer Germany 2008, 320 Pages,Size 240 X 300mm Seltmann Und Söhne Verlag Berlin 2004 Safari, 120 Pages, B/W Portraits,Size 210 X 250mm 2002 Schön, 120 Pages, 85 Images,Size 210 X 270 mm