Jacob Aue Sobol Explained

Birth Place:Copenhagen, Denmark
Known For:Photography

Jacob Aue Sobol (born 1976) is a Danish photographer.[1] He has worked in East Greenland, Guatemala, Tokyo, Bangkok, Copenhagen, United States and Russia. In 2007 Sobol became a nominee at Magnum Photos and a full member in 2012. His work has been published in a number of monographs and many catalogues, and is held in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[2]

Early life and education

Born in Copenhagen, Sobol lived in Canada from 1994 to 1995. Back in Europe he first studied at the European Film College and from 1998 at Fatamorgana, the Danish School of Art Photography.[1]

Life and work

In the autumn of 1999 he went to the remote East Greenland village of Tiniteqilaaq to photograph. The visit was only supposed to last a few weeks but after meeting a local woman, Sabine, he returned the following year and stayed there for the next two years, living the life of a fisherman and hunter.[3] In 2004 Sobol published Sabine, which in photographs and narrative portrays Sabine and describes his encounter with Greenlandic culture.[4] [5] [6] The pictures in the book express the photographic idiom he developed at Fatamorgana.

In the summer of 2005, Sobol went with a film crew to Guatemala to make a documentary about a young Mayan girl's first trip to the ocean. The following year he returned to the mountains of Guatemala, this time by himself, to stay with an indigenous family for a month to document their everyday life.

In 2006 he moved to Tokyo to spend 18 months photographing the city for his book I, Tokyo. Commenting on the book, Miranda Gavin appreciates how "the sensitivity of his approach shines through the work and sets him apart as one of a new generation of photographers with the ability to allow eroticism and danger to seep through his images without becoming sordid or clichéd."

Sobol became a nominee of Magnum Photos in 2007 and a full member in 2012.

In 2008, Sobol worked in Bangkok where he photographed children fighting for survival in the Sukhumvit slums, despite the country's growing economic prosperity.

In 2009, he moved back to Copenhagen. Since then he has worked on projects at home as well as in America and Russia.

For Arrivals and Departures (2013), Sobol rode the Trans-Siberian Railway over the course of several month-long trips, from Moscow, through Russia, Mongolia, and China. "He stopped in numerous villages along the route, and also visited Ulan Batar, Mongolia, and Beijing. Along the way, he photographed the landscapes he watched out the window, the stark accommodations in which he bedded down, and the people he met".[7] [8]

By the River of Kings (2016) was made over an extensive period spent in Bangkok.[9]

For Road of Bones, Sobol journeyed along the R504 Kolyma Highway in Russia, photographing the frozen landscape and its communities.[10]

Publications

Books by Sobol

Publications paired with others

Publications with contributions by Sobol

Awards

Exhibitions

Collections

Notes

  1. News: Hannah. Gal. Interview by Hannah. Gal. 2023-05-13. Jacob Aue Sobol's best photograph: twins cling on in the coldest city on Earth. The Guardian. 19 July 2017. 0261-3077.
  2. Web site: 2023-05-13. Aue Sobol, Jacob. SFMOMA.
  3. Web site: Vild, Smuk og Sørgelig. Weekendavisen. 2010-02-03. 2004-06-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20040606143738/http://sabine.fata.dk/SABINEANMELD.htm. dead.
  4. "Grit, Grain, Veins: The Diaristic Photographs of Jacob Aue Sobol" Time. Accessed 21 January 2017
  5. News: Love in a freezing cold climate. 28 May 2006 . 11 May 2015 . Sean . O'Hagan . Sean O'Hagan (journalist) . .
  6. Web site: 2023-05-13. Sabine. 13 July 2016. Granta.
  7. Web site: 2023-05-14. Jacob Aue Sobol on the Trans-Siberia Railway - PDN Photo of the Day. 30 July 2015. Photo District News.
  8. Web site: 2023-05-14. Jacob Aue Sobol's Intimate Chronicle of the Trans-Siberian Railway. 24 November 2020. Aperture.
  9. Web site: 2023-05-14. Robert. Dunn. Robert Dunn (novelist). By the River of Kings by Jacob Aue Sobol, reviewed by Robert Dunn. Photobookstore Magazine.
  10. News: 2023-05-13. On the road of bones. BBC News. 18 May 2017.
  11. Thrane's foreword is reproduced within Sobol's website here
  12. Web site: 2023-05-13. Video: Jacob Aue Sobol on the 'Road of Bones'. 20 June 2017. Amateur Photographer.
  13. News: Sean. O'Hagan. 2023-05-13. Veins: a Scandinavian photobook full of blood, nudity and human strangeness. The Guardian. 4 November 2013. 0261-3077.
  14. Web site: 2023-05-14. 2006 Photo Contest, Daily Life, 1st prize. World Press Photo.
  15. Web site: 2023-05-14. Jacob Aue Sobol: With and Without You. Leica Camera.
  16. Web site: 2023-05-14. Jacob Aue Sobol, Honorable mention - UNICEF Photo of the Year 2009. 31 October 2016. www.unicef.de.
  17. 2023-05-14. Arrivals and Departures: A Trans-Siberian Journey. 19 June 2013. The New Yorker.

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