Jacob Aue Sobol

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Jacob Aue Sobol, from the series Arrivals and Departures, Untitled #54, 2013. Gelatin Silver Print, © Jacob Aue Sobol, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

 

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Jacob Aue Sobol, from the series Arrivals and Departures, Untitled #16, 2012. Gelatin Silver Print, © Jacob Aue Sobol, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

 

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Jacob Aue Sobol, from the series Arrivals and Departures, Untitled #25, 2012. Gelatin Silver Print, © Jacob Aue Sobol, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

 

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Jacob Aue Sobol, from the series Arrivals and Departures, Untitled #27, 2012. Gelatin Silver Print, © Jacob Aue Sobol, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

 

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Jacob Aue Sobol, from the series Arrivals and Departures, Untitled #5, 2012. Gelatin Silver Print, © Jacob Aue Sobol, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

 

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Jacob Aue Sobol, from the series Arrivals and Departures, Untitled #40, 2012. Gelatin Silver Print, © Jacob Aue Sobol, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

 

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Jacob Aue Sobol, from the series Arrivals and Departures, Untitled #43, 2012. Gelatin Silver Print, © Jacob Aue Sobol, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

Arrivals and Departures chronicles Jacob Aue Sobol’s travels across the Asian continent by train during 2012-2014, with stops in Moscow, Russia; Ulan Batar, Mongolia and Beijing, China, and numerous rural communities along the way. During three separate month-long trips, Sobol photographed the changing landscape from his window seat, as well as encounters with inhabitants of the locations where he disembarked. Using the camera as a tool to create contact, closeness and intimacy, Sobol’s approach to photography is personal. His voyage along the Trans-Siberian Railway was, he says “an investigation of the emotional states that control us, inspire us, and keep us moving.” The images capture life’s complexities: people, places and the relationships between them.

Jacob Aue Sobol’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; Rencontres D’Arles, Arles, France; Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; C/O Berlin, Germany; ArtScience Museum, Singapore and in group exhibitions internationally, including Face of Our Time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2011). His publications include VEINS: Anders Petersen and Jacob Aue Sobol (2013); Avec Toi (2013); Arrivals & Departures (2012); I, Tokyo (2008); Sabine (2004). Sobol studied at the European Film College and Fatamorgana, Danish School of Documentary and Art Photography. He was born in Denmark in 1976 and grew up in Brøndby Strand. He currently lives and works in Copenhagen.