Jens Umbach

New York: Jens Umbach  

Jens Umbach was born near Kassel in Germany. He received a BA in photography at the University of Darmstadt (Germany) in 1999. During this time, before coming to New York, he was a partner at a studio collective (studio vier) for photography and graphic design in Darmstadt.

In 1997, he moved to New York and began working for various photographers while continuing his studies in Germany. In 1999, Jens started working freelance and dedicated more time to his own work. Since then, his portraits have been published in British Vogue, The New Yorker, Esquire, Galore, brand eins, InStyle, Forbes, and Observer Magazine, as well as the London Telegraph Magazine and London Times.

His advertising clients include Mercedes-Benz, British Airways, IBM, General Electric, Procter & Gamble, American Express and Comcast, among others.

Jens recently photographed Marc Ecko for Galore, James Frey for the London Telegraph, Prince Albert of Monaco for plant-for-the-planet, and Morgan Spurlock for vive magazine.

The opening of a satellite office in Hamburg, Germany, is in the works for 2009.

New York [USA]: Jens Umbach  

Photographer Jens Umbach recently shot a portrait of The Kings of Leon at Radio City Music Hall for The Guardian-Weekend. Other recent projects include a portrait of Aerin Lauder for Annabelle Magazine, and a portrait of Calvin Klein perfumer Ann Gottlieb for German Vogue. He is also working on a personal project of nudes that will be published in the near future.

Some of the many actors, writers, musicians and artists he has photographed include: Samuel L. Jackson, David Oyelowo, Michael Stipe, Alicia Keys, Regina Spektor, Oscar de la Renta, Philip Lim, Anna Sui, Tom Brown, Thomas Struth, and Cecily Brown, to name but a few.

His clients include: London Telegraph, London Observer, German Vogue, British Vogue, The New Yorker, Esquire, IBM, Goldman Sachs, British Airways, Mercedes Benz, and Procter & Gamble.