Bio

contact: hjacobs44@gmail.com

Henry Macbeth Jacobs is a photographer, filmmaker, drone pilot and musician in LaGrange, Ga. He is also the Middle Chattahoochee Director for Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. Born and raised in Decatur, Ga., he graduated from LaGrange College in 2013 (B.A. History). Henry is a member of the LaGrange Rotary Club and currently serves on the LaGrange College Leadership Council and is the Vice-Chairman for the Hillside Montessori School Board of Directors.

In 2019, he was included on the LaGrange Daily News’ 20 Under 40 list, and in 2020, he was part of Georgia Trend Magazine’s Georgia 40 Under 40 list.

Henry discovered photography and film during a college study-abroad trip to Istanbul and has found it a way to share the different landscapes and environments he finds himself in daily. Together with his father, Hal Jacobs, they formed HJacobs Creative in 2014 and began making films and social media focusing on the arts, nonprofits, and higher education. Their most recent project, Breaking The Silence: Lillian Smith, is a feature-length documentary film about the writer/activist Lillian Smith. The film has been screened at universities, public libraries and film festivals across the southeast, including the 2020 Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival and the 2020 Macon Film Festival (winner of the “Georgia Made” film category).

He has photographed and produced videos for musicians and artists including blues-guitarist Jontavious Willis and singer-songwriter Maggie Koerner along with some commercial work. In 2016 he travelled to La Libertad, Guatemala, to produce documentary films for a project called "Love Crosses Borders.” Jacobs also plays drums for the Front Porch Collective, a LaGrange-based Americana Roots group he helped form in 2016, and he played drums on Jontavious Willis’ debut album “Blue Metamorphosis” (awarded best self-produced album at the 2018 International Blues Challenge). He continues to occasionally play drums and washboard with Jontavious, who was nominated for a GRAMMY in 2020.

Henry is a 2018 Hambidge Fellow and his work can be found in the permanent collection of the Lamar Dodd Art Center at LaGrange College. His photography has appeared publicly in a solo exhibition at the LaGrange Art Museum (2019), SlowExposures, A Novel Experience (2018) and the LaGrange-Troup Memorial Library (2017).

His work has also been featured in the juried exhibitions: Airport 2018, Atlanta Photography Group (2018); Where Are We, Atlanta Photography Group (2017); Chattahoochee RiverViews, Columbus, Ga. (2021); Second LaGrange Southeast Regional Exhibition, Lamar Dodd Art Center (2018); Southern Landscapes, Brickworks Gallery, Atlanta, Ga. (2017); SlowExposures, Zebulon, Ga. (2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015); Southern Landscapes, SXSE, Molena, Ga. (2018); Through the Lens, Artisans on the Square, Greenville, Ga. (2017).