First edition, first printing 2008 Just a short two-page introduction, illustrated “I, Tokyo” by Jacob Aue Sobol is the winning book of the “Leica European Publishers Award for Photography”. The volume is a collection of visual suggestions and "encounters" made by the author in the Japanese metropolis, a collection of black and white photographs, shots that testify to the author's attempt to understand Tokyo and its people . Jacob Aue Sobol began photographing in the streets of Tokyo and was soon struck and fascinated by the still and restricted reality of the capital. In this book he talks about the most confined areas of the city, individuals and stories that do not immediately attract visual curiosity, but which certainly represent a key to understanding Tokyo: individualities, equally fascinated and repellent, captured in public life and in the most intimate moments .