Jacob Aue Sobol was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1976. His images focus on the universality of human emotion and the search for love within often harsh surroundings.
His very first images are from the settlement Tiniteqilaaq on the east coast of Greenland. In this township from 1999 to 2002, he made photographs and lived the life of a fisherman and seal hunter while staying with his Inuit girlfriend Sabine and her family. The resulting book, Sabine, was published in 2004. After his years in Greenland, Aue Sobol traveled to the mountains of Guatemala, where he met the indigenous Gomez-Brito family. He stayed with them for months to tell the story of their everyday life. He moved to Tokyo in 2006 and over the next two years created the images for the book I, Tokyo, exploring his own loneliness and need for closeness in the tight and confined reality of Japan’s capital.
Aue Sobol joined Magnum Photos in 2007 and became a full member in 2012.
I started photographing as a teenager, as a way to find myself in a very conservatory society, Italy. Art gave me the space to find myself, ask myself questions about our shared humanity and the nature of our feelings. When I was 19 I moved out my mentally ill mother’s apartment, moved to Copenhagen and attended Fatamorgana, school of art and documentary photography. I started working at the same time as a studio assistant and darkroom printer for Jacob Aue Sobol. At the end of my studies I travelled for 4 months in Russia, today this journey is about to become a book, Tell My Love Now.
Afterwards I have been working for the New York office at Magnum Photos, raised 10k USD with a kickstarter campaign to fund my next project in Mexico, where I travelled for 10 months.
I returned to Denmark and became a mother of 2 alongside I am the art director for my husband, Jacob Aue Sobol. We produce new work and raise our children on a small island, southern of Denmark.
