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About the Danish photographer, Jacob AUE SOBOL (b.1976, in Copenhagen)
"When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being." (© Jacob AUE SOBOL)
After studying at the European Film College, Jacob AUE SOBOL was admitted to Fatamorgana, the Danish School of Documentary and Art Photography in 1998. There he developed a unique, expressive style of black-and-white photography, which he has since refined and further developed. In the autumn of 1999, he went to live in the settlement Tiniteqilaaq on the East Coast of Greenland. Over the next three years, he lived mainly in this township with his Greenlandic girlfriend Sabine and her family, living the life of a fisherman & hunter but also photographing. In Spring 2006 he moved to Tokyo, living there 18 months before returning to Denmark in August 2008.
Photobooks by and with contributions by Jacob AUE SOBOL (a selection)
'Sabine' (photo book debut, 2004); ''I Tokyo' (2008); 'Veins' (2013, with Anders PETERSEN); 'Arrivals and Departures' (2013); 'On Daido' (2013); 'With and Without You' (2016); 'By the River of Kings' (2016); '12 Months of Winter #1' (2016); '12 Months of Winter #2' (2016); 'Road of Bone' (2016)