Tobias Kruse was born in 1979 in Mecklenburg, Northeast Germany. He studied photography at "Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie" with Prof. Ute Mahler and attended the Masterclass of Prof. Arno Fischer. He became a member of "OSTKREUZ – Photographer's Agency" in 2011.
Together with the other OSTKREUZ members, he worked on projects like "24h Berlin" and "On Borders" that were exhibited in renowned galleries like C/O Berlin, Deutsches Hygiene Museum or Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Besides that he exhibited both collectively and individually at the New York Photo Festival, in the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and in galleries in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland.
Tobias Kruses work has been published in numerous magazines. Moreover, he published his photographs in books by Steidl and Hatje Cantz. His first monograph was published by Kerber in 2019. He works and lives in Berlin.
