In 1999, the Danish photographer Jacob Aue Sobol travelled to the small hunting community of Tiniteqilaaq, in south-eastern Greenland. He was twenty-three years old at the time, and intended to pass a few weeks photographing the inhabitants. Then, as often happens, reality altered around him, and …
Sabine
Jacob Aue Sobol & Joanna Kavenna
‘A series of extraordinary portraits of the Arctic wilderness and the intimacies of love.’
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Jacob Aue Sobol
Jacob Aue Sobol is a Danish photographer. After studying at the European Film College, he was admitted to Fatamorgana, the Danish School of Art Photography. He has lived in Canada, Greenland and Japan. Sabine was nominated for the 2005 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
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Joanna Kavenna grew up in various parts of Britain and has also lived in the US, France, Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. She is the author of three novels: Inglorious, The Birth of Love and Come to the Edge; and one work of non-fiction, The Ice Museum. In 2008 she was awarded the Orange Prize for New Writing. Her work has appeared in publications including the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, the Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, the International Herald Tribune, the Spectator and the Telegraph. She has held writing fellowships at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and St John’s College, Cambridge. ‘Tomorrow’ is an excerpt from a forthcoming novel.
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