JACOB HEINE/AL-MAJNOUN BOOKS

                           

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■ Jacob Heine (*2001) is a German photographer and designer. Holding a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (BUW), he currently studies photography in the diploma class of Heidi Specker at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Heine’s work bridges photography, book design, and theory, regularly presented in the form of self-produced publications. Photographically interested in atmospheres of artificial light and sculptural qualities, his work textually concerns itself with the topics of autism, mental health, grief, and their connections to photography as well as philosophy, sociology, linguistics, psychology, and politics. ■ Heine has been exhibited in Germany and Japan, lastly being shortlisted for the Stiftung Buchkunst’s Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design. Heine was a student assistant and workshop lecturer at the BUW, currently teaching there as a visiting lecturer. From 2025 to 2026, he was a recipient of the German National Scholarship Program.
















■ Jacob’s e-mail (BUW):   jacob.heine@uni-weimar.de
■ Jacob’s e-mail (HGB):    jheine@hgb-leipzig.de
■ Jacob’s Instagram:         @heine.portfolio






















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■ COLLECTIONS:    4
■ SUBPAGES:           48




































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              □ DARK WAS THE NIGHT COLD WAS THE GROUND
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    C: \ PUBLICATIONS \ 2025 \ DARK WAS THE NIGHT COLD WAS THE GROUND

    2025
    artist book
    unpaginated
    175 x 200 mm
    French Fold binding

    dorée 70g/m²

    Al-Majnoun Books

    “Dark Was the Night Cold Was the Ground” is an artist book following the move out of Heine’s first flat in Erfurt; an old, run-down worker’s house Am Salpeterberg. Showing fragments of the process of moving as well as atmospheric meditations on a familiar place, the work investigates novel experiences of autism as a disability, at the foremost due to elementary problems with change as well as a mixture of dread, sorrow and reconsiliation going along with it.The book furthermore includes short handwritten texts about the time spent at this address as well as the story of a blues song sent into space in the 70s. In this, a bridge be-tween special interest, disability, self-mythology and biographical artefact is built.