Jojakim Cortis is a freelance photographer and lecturer. Born in 1978 in Aachen, Germany, he has lived in Zürich, Switzerland, since 2001. He studied photography at Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK), where his working partnership with Adrian Sonderegger first began. He has been working as a freelance photographer since finishing his studies in 2006, and has been a technical assistant and lecturer at ZHDK since 2009.