Born in Slovenia in 1987, Jazbec first studied Management in Ljubljana, followed by Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication, graduating with an MA in 2011. He won the 2013 Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award for his Waiting to Move series, portraying a village in Alaska impacted by climate change. The same year, he received at award at Les Rencontres d'Arles for his photo story, On Thin Ice, with which he also won Magnum’s 30 under 30 competition in 2015. He has received numerous further award since then. His work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, Geo Deutschland and Neue Zürcher Zeitung, among others.
