Jenn Ackerman
Minneapolis, MN, United States
I am a photographer based in Minneapolis and my clients include The New York Times, Esquire, Target, Time, Fortune, ESPN the Magazine, People, Bon Appetit among others.
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My focus has been on subcultures in the US including mental illness in prison, HIV in rural America, beauty contestants and living in Appalachia. “Her intention is to peel back the veneer, revealing unguarded emotions, irony and incongruity without betraying her subjects” (PDN, March 2012).
In 2013, she was awarded the Documentary Photographers Fund Award and a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant and in 2012, she was named a McKnight Fellow and one of PDN’s 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch. Her work has been recognized by the Inge Morath Award, Review Santa Fe/CENTER, Magnum Expression Award, the Honickman First Book Prize, Communication Arts Photography Annual and others. One of her projects, Trapped, was named Non-Traditional Photojournalism Publishing Project of the Year and the project’s short film won an Emmy.
- Advertising
- Editorial
- Portrait
- Video capture
