Jacob Consenstein

I’ve been working with @thenorthface_city channel for over five years now, and one of my main goals has always been to highlight where the brand has actually sat in relationship to culture. There are only a few brands that have really defined elements of NYC street culture in tangible, lasting ways - brands that don’t just exist in it, but continuously create new pockets and push things forward. This project feels like a real example of that. Getting to highlight the people who were actually the arbiters of these movements - the ones who lived it, collected it, shaped it - is something that feels long overdue. Bringing them into my studio, creating space for them to feel seen, and giving them recognition for something they’ve been doing for years, deeply tied to niche new york culture, has been really special. It’s a process i’m genuinely grateful for. Big thank you to @rawrricky for the trust and for continuing to open the door for work like this. You’ve got a keen eye for this ;) EP, Director, Photographer: Jacob Consenstein Producer: @sam.finer Stylist: @antonellogonzalez Stylist Assistant: @_alexis__ayala_ Photo Assistant: @hosfx Talent: @jstrong69 , @cyphaknows , @writecoves , @saulin , @ghostnacekillah

Keepsake Fuji Instax images from my archive - collaged, cut, and reassembled with tape. Originally exhibited as part of my solo show in Seoul, this is a small selection of those works. Fragments held onto, altered, and brought back together.

Outtakes from my book Half God with @wikset Half God is a narrative piece on Wiki’s album produced by @sageelsesser . The book contains over 6 months of photographing Pat while his album came to life. Pat came to me while I was on the clock to show me the tracks he was making. We spent hours discussing his work and how we would bring it to life. The images included are influences from our upbringings (we grew up just blocks apart), NYC landmarks, the making of the album art, and the first performances of Half God. All 35mm film, Fuji Instax & Pat’s writing. 65 pages, 15,2 cm / 22,8 cm (6x9 inch), Smyth sewn Hardcover, Bilderdruck Matt 170gramm paper, Iris Linen black covers, hot foil stamping on the front + type on the spine. Published by @warprecords Consulted by @psycheoliveoil ☮️

TNF ARCHIVE Five collectors, five silhouettes, decades of history. Rooted in 90s nyc, brooklyn to uptown, where gear became identity and defined parts of street culture. This one’s for the collectors. Finally getting their flowers. Images soon. EP, Director, Photographer: Jacob Consenstein Producer: @sam.finer DP: @zachcooperdp Stylist: @antonellogonzalez Stylist Assistant: @_alexis__ayala_ Photo Assistant: @hosfx Editor and Colorist: @therealallenn Music: @jetfighterwatson Talent: @jstrong69 , @cyphaknows , @writecoves , @ghostnacekillah , @sualin

Printing my entire archive from 2014–2019 as I work toward my first monograph, Seeking Peace. Just finished printing everything through 2017 and starting the process of physically living with the work - editing, organizing, and slowly narrowing it down. It’s been a strange and beautiful experience reliving these years, while also figuring out how to fit something this big into the rhythm of everyday life. 80+ hours in and the process is slow - printing, labeling, building a system so I can always trace things back. It’s as meditative as it is instinctual. It feels great to do such an intensive analog process in these hyper-digital times. Grateful to have a practice that allows for both - the pace of commercial work, and something that feels endless in the best way. Working with Saji on shaping the story, and beginning our first in-person sessions. Each step feels like a real move toward making this book exist. ☮️

Always amazing to see your images living in the world - especially this big and in subway stations. As a New Yorker, it means a lot. This billboard campaign for Function Health was such a fun one. Agent & Production: @w.o.n.g.y PA: @bijansosnowski PA: @wavvyboi Retoucher: @greg.alders Casting: @insearchof.agency

OPEN STUDIO [3/3]

OPEN STUDIO [2/3]

OPEN STUDIO [1/3] I spent the last two days of my 20s in my studio, photographing. Closing out my 20s this way feels right. Over the course of two days, more than 75 people stepped in front of a white backdrop and let me make their portrait. The format was simple and deliberate - I wanted it to feel formal. Classic. Structured. There’s something about restraint that I keep coming back to in my work. Limiting the tools. Committing to a format. Removing distraction. It forces you to pay attention. It sharpens the exchange. It makes the act of photographing feel direct and honest. I love faces. I love the interaction that happens in that short, quiet moment between the camera and the person standing in front of it. There’s an intimacy in formality, in asking someone to stand still. A lot of people asked why I host these open studios. The answer is simple. It gives me a task. It pushes my studio practice forward. It opens my space to people who may not have otherwise walked into it. It allows me to share my process and demystify how these kinds of photographs are made. Maybe most importantly, it makes the work accessible. Many people go their entire lives without ever having a formal professional photograph taken of them. This is a small way to offer that experience - to give someone a record of themselves that feels intentional and considered. I’m excited for everyone to receive their images. I’ll be sharing them via a link soon. This is the first of three posts from the series. Thank you to everyone who came through and trusted me with their face. And shout out to Santiago Vanegas @saceni for assisting and holding it down with me. Maybe one day these end up in a book.

Kev, Ariana, Sim & Courtney for @thenorthface_city Styled by @ellorenzi PA @fran.ci.ni.a Shout out @rawrricky for the continued trust 🤝

Tokyo - Dec 15–25, 2025 My 6th trip, and I’m still amazed how much work I keep making there. Pure snap photography: daily reportage + portraits. Really grateful for the network and new friends I’ve built out there. Last year I was in Tokyo for three weeks around New Year, and coming back at a different time reminded me how much the city shifts with the seasons. This one was lighter - solo, my first time going without flying with friends, posted up in a neighborhood I loved, moving freely. Making work abroad always hits me with that feeling: if I don’t take the photo now, I might never get the chance - everything’s fleeting. Trying to bring that same urgency back into my daily photography. It’s been really good to lock in on personal work at the start of the year - bouncing between images that are extremely old and extremely new has been such a fun, informative contrast.

A different kind of hard post today - process over polish. I’ve been pretty religious for years about how I post: only the strongest images, only what feels like the most accurate representation of my work as a whole. And as my career has shifted more and more commercial (in the best way), my time has shifted too. I’m grateful for it, truly, but the daily reality has been a lot of behind-the-scenes work: producing, admin, building decks, managing logistics, tightening archives, rebuilding my website, and setting up my work to live inside a larger business structure. In that shuffle, my personal work didn’t disappear, but it became less visible. I’ve been making it, thinking about it, carrying it - but not always sharing it the way I used to. Lately I’ve been pulled back to it hard. Someone described the “three P’s”: professional, personal, precious. I keep a lot of precious work for myself and my family. The professional work is what you see most often. But I’ve been missing the personal - the work that formed me. For the last 4–5 months, I’ve been printing and curating my archive from 2014–2019 toward my first monograph, Seeking Peace. Those years hold the beginning of everything: the naive love, the obsession, the early imperfections, and then the steady sharpening of craft as the work got deeper and more intentional. These photos aren’t meant to be a “final edit.” They’re a look into the process - a timestamp of the season I’m in right now. Here’s what I’ve been up to.