Jacob Aue Sobol, I, Tokyo

I, Tokyo

Jacob Aue Sobol

Publisher
Dewi Lewis Publishing
Year
2009
ISBN
9781904587682
Specifications
Hardcover
30 x 22.7 cm
112 pages
70 tritone photographs
Winner of the 2008 European Publishers Award for Photography

Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol moved to Tokyo in spring 2006. "Initially I felt invisible. Each day I would walk the streets without anyone making eye-contact with me. Everyone seemed to be heading somewhere – it was as if they had no need of communication. Most mornings I would take the Chuo-line from Nakano to Shinjuku, and even though the train would be packed with salary-men and school girls in uniform, I rarely heard a word being spoken. And so I began taking my pocket camera out with me on the streets and in the parks. Rather than focusing on the impressively tall buildings and the eternal swarm of people, I began searching for the narrow paths and the individual human presence in a city that felt both attractive and repulsive at the same time.”

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