TokyoJacob Aue Sobol
Dewi Lewis
112 pages, 70 images
Hardcover, $45
Last year, Jacob Aue Sobol's harsh, high contrast, black and white snapshot of Tokyo He won the Leica European Publishers Award, given each year since 1994. The winner is selected by the seven European publishers, external judges, and a Leica representative and then given the opportunity to publish a book. Sobol's I, Tokyo released this year by seven publishers; the English version comes from the UK publisher Dewi Lewis.
Born in Copenhagen, Sobol, a Magnum candidate since 2007, moved to Tokyo with his girlfriend Sara when she got a job there in 2006. During the 18 months he has to know the city, a pocket camera in hand. "Instead of focusing on the impressive high rise buildings and perennial crowd," writes the artist Sobol said in a statement, "I began searching the narrow streets and individual human presence in a town that seemed interesting and disgusting at the same time." Sobol's Tokyo photograph is a mixture of portraits, street scenes and observations that bear the signs of the sleek modernity and the sea of people is often associated with Japanese capital. Contrast images are intimate, sometimes erotic, and often thundering in their perspective and closeness to the people. The result is a very subjective catalog of experiences photographers looking for a place in a city foreign to him. if you want to know him more please visit Jacob here
Born in Copenhagen, Sobol, a Magnum candidate since 2007, moved to Tokyo with his girlfriend Sara when she got a job there in 2006. During the 18 months he has to know the city, a pocket camera in hand. "Instead of focusing on the impressive high rise buildings and perennial crowd," writes the artist Sobol said in a statement, "I began searching the narrow streets and individual human presence in a town that seemed interesting and disgusting at the same time." Sobol's Tokyo photograph is a mixture of portraits, street scenes and observations that bear the signs of the sleek modernity and the sea of people is often associated with Japanese capital. Contrast images are intimate, sometimes erotic, and often thundering in their perspective and closeness to the people. The result is a very subjective catalog of experiences photographers looking for a place in a city foreign to him. if you want to know him more please visit Jacob here
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