CONTACT + BIO

Jacob Blickenstaff
917-554-1710
jacob@33-13.com

As a trusted and empathic collaborator, Jacob has worked with recording artists and record labels on over 50 album packaging projects and publicity campaigns, including nine album covers for Daptone Records—notably Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings’ Soul of a Woman, I Learned the Hard Way, and It’s a Holiday Soul Party—as well as projects for Natalie Merchant, Joe Jackson, Joe Henry, The Marcus King Band, Valerie June, and Jazzmeia Horn.

Jacob has published photo-based features in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, NPR Music and Mother Jones. As a contributing photographer to The New York Times, he has worked alongside leading cultural critics covering pop, jazz, hip-hop and classical music.

With broad musical knowledge and experience that covers every angle, Jacob is able to not just create the pictures, but understand how they are used to define and differentiate an artist in their album packaging, press coverage and marketing, and, most importantly, in the hearts and minds of music lovers. 

CLIENTS

The New York Times, Mother Jones, Concord Records, Daptone Records, Nonesuch, Glassnote Records, Lighting Rod Records, ANTI-, Ramseur Records, Warner Music Group, Thirty Tigers, New West Records, Norton Records.

FEATURES

Mother Jones - On The Road - Series

Rolling Stone: Low Cut Connie Rip Up the Stage - January 4, 2019

NPR Music: Sharon Jones Remembered in Pictures - December 19, 2017

The New York Times: Sharon Jones, A Queen Among Dap-Kings - November 23, 2016

Rolling Stone: Sharon Jones Gets Her Groove Back - February 12, 2014