LFI Workshop

From May 27 to 29, Jacob Aue Sobol ran his The Journey workshop at the LFI head offices in Hamburg. After an initial period on Friday evening getting to know each other and presenting works realized to date, Saturday began with individual talks and followed with the development of an assignment for the weekend.

You can see the completed series at our gallery.

Born in Denmark in 1976, Jacob Aue Sobol studied at the European Film College and at Fatamorgana, the Danish College for Documentary and Artistic Photography. He was an exchange student in Canada, lives as a fisherman and hunter in Greenland, and spentd one and a half years in Tokyo, where he produced his I, Tokyo photo book, which earned him the Leica European Publishers Award in 2008. In collaboration with Leica, Sobol began his Arrivals and Departures project – a journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Beijing. Aue Sobol currently lives and works in Copenhagen and is a member of the Magnum Agency. He is also represented by galleries in New York, Madrid and Paris.

You can see his Exploring the Inner Self series in
M Magazine No. 3.