Born and brought up in Abensberg, Lower Bavaria, Jakob Berr completed his degree in photo design at secondary school in Munich in 2007. After studying photo journalism and reportage photography in Hanover for one year, he moved to the United States. In 2010, thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship, Berr was able to complete his Master of Arts in Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism. Since 2013 he has been working as photo editor for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich.
