Tobias Hutzler is a New York City–based photographer known for his artful imagery for car companies like Honda and Hyundai and magazines like The New Yorker, Time, GEO, Fast Company, Sony, Travel+Leisure, Road & Track, and The New York Times Magazine. In 2013, Hutzler’s short film “Balance,” inspired by a performance by Maedir Eugster of the Rigolo Swiss Nouveau Cirque, premiered on Time.com and went viral, garnering millions of views worldwide. Luxury watch maker Titan Company later commissioned Hutzler to direct a commercial based on “Balance” and to photograph an accompanying ad campaign.
Hutzler received an M.F.A. from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in photography. He is also the recipient of a Fulbright award scholarship, a DAAD award scholarship, and a European Union scholarship.
Hutzler has photographed scientists from the Royal Ontario Museum on expedition in the Canadian Rocky Mountains for GEO magazine, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on the campaign trail for The New York Times Magazine, a groundbreaking refugee camp in Turkey, also for The New York Times Magazine, and album packaging and publicity images for the band Magic Man for Sony. He also directed the Magic Man video "It All Starts Here," which aired on MTV and VH1. The rock band Bush used one of Huztler’s photos for the cover of its 2014 single “The Only Way Out.” Also in 2014, the award-winning Canadian poetry journal Vallum featured Hutzler’s imagery on the cover and throughout its issue devoted to “Speed.”
Tobias (Τοβίας) is a Greek version of the Hebrew biblical name "Toviyah" (טוביה), meaning "The goodness of God". It is a popular male given name in Germany, Scandinavia, the United States and amongst Jewish people. In English-speaking countries it is often shortened to Toby. In German, this name appears as Tobias or Tobi; in French (where it is mostly found among Protestants) as Tobie; and in Swedish as Tobbe. Tobias has also been a surname.
Several people are called Tobias in The Bible:
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The surname Tobias derives from the Greek form (Τοβίας) of the Hebrew male given name "Tovya" טוביה, meaning "God is good". In the Old Testament of the Bible, Tobias is the hero of the Book of Tobit who defeats a demon with archangel Raphael’s help.
The surname Tobias may refer to the following people: