Photographers
Leica to exhibit brand new work by Jacob Aue Sobol at Photo London 2017
PhotocriticEtc© Jacob Aue Sobol, From the series Road of Bones, Yakutsk, Yakutia 2016
Never previously exhibited, Road of Bones features images captured by the Magnum photographer, depicting poignant scenes from the notorious Kolyma Highway
Building on the success of the previous two editions, Photo London 2017 will showcase the best in contemporary and historic photography to a growing international audience of collectors and enthusiasts intrigued by the rich history of the medium and its future directions. This year, 87 of the world’s leading galleries will exhibit at the fair.
Road of Bones is a new body of work by the Danish Magnum photographer, Jacob Aue Sobol. It will be exhibited by Leica at Photo London 2017.
All the images were shot in black and white by Jacob Aue Sobol with Leica M cameras, and are immediately recognisable thanks to Sobol’s individual shooting style and distinctive visual language. Furthermore, the photographs in this collection are distinguished by their powerful, high contrast qualities characterised with deep, rich blacks.
The work portrays the ‘Kolyma Highway’, notorious for its dark and gruesome past where many Gulag prisoners fell during the period of Soviet repression, and where thousands of the victims’ skeletons still lie beneath the road.
The exhibition will take place in the Navy Board Room at Somerset House and runs from 18 to 21 May 2017.
