Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber are a husband and wife team based in Minneapolis, MN. Simply put they’re storytellers. They enjoy the collaborative nature of being a tight-knit team and pushing each other to create images that sing. Their goal on every assignment is simple - evoke emotion and authenticity in every image they make. They believe you can’t forget what you feel and they try to make images that make you feel something.

They take an authentic approach to their work and specialize in providing images of real people to advertising, corporate and editorial clients. They pride themselves in being storytellers and love establishing a rapport with everyone they photograph.

When you don’t find them behind a camera you’ll find them walking through their neighborhood or on their bikes scheming up their next big idea or most likely just talking about what they should make for dinner.

Their work has been honored by the Communication Arts Photography Annual and Advertising Annual 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, American Photography 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, PDN Photo Annual, CENTER Project Competition, Photolucida’s Critical Mass, Inge Morath Award, Magnum Expression Award, POYi, and many others. Their most recent documentary film won an Emmy and they were named a McKnight Fellow and to PDN's 30 Photographers to Watch.

For their aerial work, they are FAA 107 certified pilots and fully insured.