DATE: February 19, 2010

Jacob Aue Sobol at Yossi Milo


In two complementary series of black-and-white photographs, this Danish photographer immerses us in a dark, erotic, and occasionally violent world a lot like the one we've seen in pictures by Daido Moriyama, J. H. Engstrom, Anders Petersen, and other frequenters of the lower depths.


ImageJacob Aue Sobol, Untitled #10, From the series I, Tokyo (2006-2008), © Jacob Aue Sobol, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Whether he's photographing his girlfriend, Sabine, in Greenland or random strangers in Tokyo, Aue Sobol's blunt realism often gives way to something dreamlike, even nightmarish.

Read the complete review in The New Yorker.





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