Jeff Jacobson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1946.  He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1968, and from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., in  1971. After completing a workshop at Apeiron with Charles Harbutt, in 1974, Jacobson quit his law practice to devote his full energies to photography. Jeff does assignments for magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Time, Geo, Stern, and Life. His work has been exhibited around the world including  permanent collections found in The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, The Joy of Giving Society in New York. Jeff lives with his wife, Marnie Andrews, in Mt Tremper, a Catskills hamlet about two hours north of New York.