Jonas Unger is best known for his incredible portraits of Oscar winner Julianne Moore, Joaquin Phoenix, Susan Sarandon, Amy Adams and Paul Pogba among others. Coveted by the fashion and celebrity world alike Jonas has gathered fans in all domains. His work has been featured in the French and American Vogue, Le Monde and for campaigns including Hermes, Chanel, Tod's, Tom Ford, Chloé among others.

He is also known for his quest for solitude amongst the noise and fanfare of celebrity photography, of treating celebrities as human demystifying the celebrity myth,  detaching them from all of the celebrity bubble,  which as you can imagine, is not easy.

Jonas talks about his journey to 40 and, how, despite having all of these skills and all of these talents and getting amazing work  he talks about not being in alignment with his inner self. How he turned his back on the commercial world for awhile. If there's one thing you should take away from here, its the quest for solitude!

Jonas mentions Helmut Lang's philosophy on different work for each age. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/26/fashion/thursdaystyles/decline-and-fall-of-helmut-lang.html
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More about Jonas below


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Jonas Unger was born in Flensburg and grew up in Cuxhaven. Even today, his closeness to the water during his childhood manifests itself in a pronounced passion for the coast and the sea.
At the age of 13, Jonas and his grandfather, a professor of theology from Heidelberg, set off on a study trip through the then still existing Eastern Bloc - by car through Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania to Greece.
Jonas likes to capture the many impressions and starts experimenting with his grandfather's camera and capturing the people and their stories. A passion that has not let him go until today.

After finishing his studies, he moved to Paris to concentrate on photography and to understand it better.
After a while Jonas begins to take photographs for M Le Monde, Zeit Magazin and SZ Magazin, among others. A LEAD Award follows, finally the golden nail of the ADC in 2011 for his Gérard Depardieu reportage for Zeit Magazin.
For Jonas, photography means above all communication: the basis from which every story, every idea develops, is always the portrait, the encounter and confrontation with people, always the story to be told. Jonas transfers this approach to all formats, whether travel, documentation, product or fashion - at the beginning there is always a story told around the object to be photographed.

Today, he photographs for the most prestigious magazines and exclusive customers in the world and has had the most diverse personalities in front of his camera, from Amy Adams and Julianne Moore to Christoph Waltz, Virgil Abloh, Joaquin Phoenix, Ryan Gosling and Paul Pogba.
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Customer list editorial:
M Le Monde, Vogue France, Vogue US, Zeit Magazin, Wall Street Journal Magazine, Self Service, Purple Magazine, Vogue Dutch, Vogue Me, Interview US, Another Magazine, etc.


Hermes, Chanel, Tod's, Tom Ford, Chloé, Birkenstock, Arket, Ermenegildo Zegna, Etc.