Worth a watch – Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol
Jun 15, 2012 by M. Scott Brauer 3 Comments »
Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol: Episode 2 – Moscow from Leica Camera on Vimeo.
Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol: Episode 6 – The Final Episode from Leica Camera on Vimeo.
“In the streets I try not to make any rational decisions about what to photograph and what not. I do not have any rules. I take pictures of everything on my way: a tree, a building, a shadow, a person. Sometimes it takes me two hours to get down a street, because there are so many things to photograph and people to meet.” -Jacob Aue Sobol, Arrivals and Departures with Jacob Aue Sobol: Episode 5 – Beijing
Photography can be a solitary act; there’s the photographer and subjects and not much else. That’s why I relish it when I get the chance to see good photographers at work. I love seeing how they get into the situations that result in pictures, how they walk the streets, how they handle subjects. Videos like the ones above make me want to go out and make pictures in the same way that seeing a great band makes me want to learn to play the guitar.
Now, via the Leica blog, we have a couple videos of Jacob Aue Sobol (Magnum portfolio) at work in Russia, Mongolia, and China. He’s long been a favorite, so I’m especially excited about this. The videos are a quick glimpse, but interesting nonetheless to see what precipitates his raw and intimate imagery. The two videos are embedded above, named Part 2 and Part 6. The other parts are text and picture blog posts on the Leica blog: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.
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Love that moment in video #6, subject asks “Look at you, look at me?” Long pause then Sobol says “I don’t know, you decide.”
I remember watching and rewatching the parts of War Photographer where Nachtwey wordlessly interacts with subjects. There’s so much communication that can happen w/ gesture and body language.
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M. Scott Brauer Reply:
June 15th, 2012 at 4:55 pm
Right there with you on War Photographer, Stephen. Helped me see how that kind of work gets done.
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i have watched them all. and high respect goes out to sobol and nachtwey respectively, they both exude innate prescience and humanity.
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