20/07/08: Jacob Aue Sobol
"Tokyo"
Leica European Publishers Award for Photography 2008.
Besides having his book project printed, the Danish photographer Jacob Aue Sobol wins 10,000 Euro in cash and a LEICA M8 digital rangefinder camera. The award will be presented at the Arles photo festival from July 8th - 13th 2008.
Born in Copenhagen in 1976, Jacob Aue Sobol has been living in Tokyo since 2006. After studying at the European Film School, he attended the Danish School of Documentary and Art Photography, Fatamorgana, from 1998, where he developed his photographic language that first manifested itself in his pictures of Tiniteqilaaq in Eastern Greenland.
He was there for three years starting in 1999, spending most of the time with his Greenland girlfriend Sabine and her family and getting to know the life of the fishermen and hunters.
The book of photographs he took there, "Sabine", was published in 2004 and nominated for the German Stock Exchange Photography Prize the next year. In the summer of 2005 he traveled to Guatemala with a film team to make a documentary on a young Maya girl and her first journey to the ocean.
The photo series he took the following year in the mountains of Guatemala documenting the life of the indigenous family Gomez-Brito won first prize in the Daily Life Stories category of the World Press Photo 2006. Jacob Aue Sobol became a member of the Magnum agency in 2007.
Leica European Publishers Award for Photography 2008.
Besides having his book project printed, the Danish photographer Jacob Aue Sobol wins 10,000 Euro in cash and a LEICA M8 digital rangefinder camera. The award will be presented at the Arles photo festival from July 8th - 13th 2008.
Born in Copenhagen in 1976, Jacob Aue Sobol has been living in Tokyo since 2006. After studying at the European Film School, he attended the Danish School of Documentary and Art Photography, Fatamorgana, from 1998, where he developed his photographic language that first manifested itself in his pictures of Tiniteqilaaq in Eastern Greenland.
He was there for three years starting in 1999, spending most of the time with his Greenland girlfriend Sabine and her family and getting to know the life of the fishermen and hunters.
The book of photographs he took there, "Sabine", was published in 2004 and nominated for the German Stock Exchange Photography Prize the next year. In the summer of 2005 he traveled to Guatemala with a film team to make a documentary on a young Maya girl and her first journey to the ocean.
The photo series he took the following year in the mountains of Guatemala documenting the life of the indigenous family Gomez-Brito won first prize in the Daily Life Stories category of the World Press Photo 2006. Jacob Aue Sobol became a member of the Magnum agency in 2007.
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