Born in 1979 in Herne, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
In 2008 Jörg Brüggemann finished his photography studies under the guidance of professor Peter Bialobrzeski at the University of the Arts in Bremen. His diploma project “Same Same But Different” portrayed backpacking tourism in South Asia. Since then he works as a freelance photographer in Berlin and a year later he joined OSTKREUZ — Photographers’ Agency. In 2012 Jörg Brüggemann published his first monograph “Metalheads — The Global Brotherhood” with gestalten publisher and showed the project as a single exhibition at gestalten space in Berlin.
He received numerous awards and grants including the BFF promtion prize 2009, a VG BildKunst grant, and an honorable mention at CENTER’s Project Competition 2009. He was a finalist at the MAGNUM Expression Award 2009 and a winner of PDN Photo Annual 2013. As a member of OSTKREUZ –Photographers’ Agency he recieved the Konrad-Wolf-Preis 2013.