Renée Jacobs started her photography career in the 1980’s; that gloriously wonderful decade when everything moved faster then the speed of light.
Taking full advantage of the opportunities available to her, the work of Renée Jacobs has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, Camera 35, SLR Magazine, and The Portland Oregonian. Her solo monograph, Slow Burn: A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania was met with critical praise and she soon after recieved the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Award for Coverage of the Disadvantaged and is in the permanent collection of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Following the books publication, Jacobs became a lawyer and practiced civil rights law for fifteen years.
These days, Renée Jacobs has returned to photography full time with a concentration on the female nude. Jacobs states,... MORE