GABRIEL JACOBS
INFORMATION
CV

gabriel jacobs is a 27yr visual engineer based in nyc. he solves problems and creates solutions to ones that dont yet exist through a combination of storytelling, visual design, analytical research, physical scuptural practice and technical know how.

working across a variety of fields including finance, marketing, fabrication, fine art, tech and fashion he embues the jack of all trades persona.




PURPOSE SELECTED PROJECTSWHEN
BRANDING_SOMADA systems2025-now
DESIGN
_SOMADA products2024-now

CLIENT
Sergio Tacchini2025-now

GEN AIAI --GEN--
2023-now

CONCEPT
24hr layout
2021-26

FINANCE Keyrock Trading 2021-2025
SCULPTUREmy sister’s plight2019-20
MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY
PERM-line  2017

POLITICAL RESEARCH
ru n fra gm ent ation 2018

PHOTO
Family Threads
2015-17

DOCUMENTARY
THE Restrooms 2015-16

ENGINEERING
>>FLIGHT SYSTEMS<< 2014-16

TT9_DO
Ref. V/PLX-302  2037

POD_15
Ref. V/GRQ-281 2036

LPA_CC
V/KSN-778  2035

S34_YV
V/EAO-541  2034

FED_D8
Ref. V/TUR-444  2033


Family ThreadsRef. R/XTR-0822015-2017


 ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHY
PERSONAL
 DOCUMENTATION
 NARRATIVE

In 2012 like 50% of married couples in the USA my parents split. The circumstances while personal involved infidelity and accrual of massive debt. My two younger brothers were destined for Join Custody while I was given the option to pick a side, I choose my Father. 

In the intervening years there was little stability, my father in particular to claw his way out of debt worked relentlessly, the large home I grew up in replaced with a cramped apartments sometimes hotels. 




late shift, medium format
By 2015 I had become proficenient in photography, afterschool I would spend hours at the libary paging through photobooks, looking at the greats.

In particular I was drawn to the documentary work of Larry Sultan, the vast Suburban compositions of Gregory Crewdson and the stark lonliness in Todd Hido’s imagery.

So I turned the lens upon my own family.

Towards the spaces that we transited through, to my younger brothers, to my father.

Over the course of two years I composed this body of work, shot entirely on either Large or Medium format film.

Shooting on such a old and complicated format especially in the evenings presented signifigant challenges, especially given these cameras in large part were intended for primarily Studio use, where they would be attached to large tripods and paired with controlled lighting.




shower, medium format
hotel II, medium format

For this reason none of these compositions were candid, instead intricately posed in collaboration with my family, whom I am eternally grateful for putting up with me. Though most were composed off of actual scenes I had come across living with them.

Many of the exposures on were taken on low speed film and at high apertures neccecitating either hidden artificial lights or long exposures. It remains today one of my produdest photographic works I have ever created.


self portrait II, large format





self portrait III, medium format
long night, medium format




self portrait IV, large format


    father II, medium format


  youngest brother II, large format



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