Signed; Jacob Aue Sobol - Tokyo - 2008

Winner of the fifteenth edition of the Leica European Publishers Award for Photography.

Born in 1976 in Copenhagen, Jacob Aue Sobol joined in 1998 the Danish School of Documentary and Artistic Photography Fatamorgana.

A few years later, it was a love story that led the photographer to Tokyo, Japan:

“I landed in Tokyo for the first time in the spring of 2006. My friend Sara had found a job there and I chose to accompany her to meet the city where she had grown up – a universe entirely new to me, about which I knew almost nothing and to which I was not particularly drawn [...].

The photos of this series represent what I saw there and those I brushed shoulders with over the eighteen months that followed. The singular people I met there helped me, I think, to better grasp what it means to be part of today’s Tokyo. Some became friends; with others I only shared a brief moment.

My photos were born from these chance encounters, with no guide other than my curiosity, my mood of the day and my sense of the city as I discovered it. As much as possible, I worked instinctively. Taking photos has something of an improvised game. It seems to me that the more spontaneous and unreflected a photo is, the more it comes alive, and the more it shifts from the realm of showing to that of existing.”

Complete copy with its dust jacket, like new, and signed by Jacob Aue Sobol!