Yakutsk, Siberia. 2016. From the books With And Without You and Road of Bones Copyrights to Jacob Aue Sobol © All rights reserved.
Tokyo, Japan. 2006. From the book I, Tokyo. Copyrights to Jacob Aue Sobol © All rights reserved.
Jacob Aue Sobol is known for his expressive style of black-and-white photography.
"My pictures are about being human for better or worse, he says. I cannot imagine dealing with other themes. It is the core of my pictures that they ask questions about our existence and that they speak to our inner feelings."
Sobol's photographs of Greenland, Guatemala and Tokyo had won him numerous awards. In 2006, Sobol moved to Tokyo and shot a series of images that won the 2008 Leica European Publishers Award. His series, “I, Tokyo”, was published by Actes Sud (France), Apeiron (Greece), Dewi Lewis Publishing (Great Britain), Edition Braus (Germany), Lunwerg Editores (Spain) and Peliti Associati (Italy).
Sobol became a nominee at Magnum photos in 2007 and is a full member since 2012. Following his time in Tokyo, Jacob worked extensively in Bangkok, which resulted in his 2016 book, “By the River of Kings”. was granted by The Danish Arts Foundation in 2016 and The Danish Arts Council.
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