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Richard Sobol
Richard Sobol's career as a photojournalist has crisscrossed over three distinct sectors: wildlife, politics and architecture. For two decades, he photographed the political campaigns and news events that have shaped our world. He has spent much of the last decade concentrating on wildlife and exposing illegal trade in endangered species.
His wildlife and political photographs have appeared in National Geographic, TIME, Newsweek, Life, People, Outside, Fortune, Audobon and Wildlife Conservation. In addition, he is the author of nine books dealing with wildlife conservation and American politics.
In early 2000 Sobol heard a recording of Hebraic chants from an anthropology student at Boston University and was stopped in his tracks. Having worked in Uganda photographing elephants for his book One More Elephant (Cobblehill, 1995) it was hard for him to grasp how this music had come to be. He then set out to find this group of Bantu People that did indeed, practice Orthodox Jewish ritual observance deep in the African Bush. As the first photojournalist to document these unique and surprising people he lived with this community during three visits to Uganda and recently published the book Abayudaya - The Jews of Uganda (Abbeville Press, 2002). He also collaborated with ethnomusicologist Jeffrey Summit on the Grammy award-nominated CD, Music of the Jews of Uganda.
Sobol recently completed a three-year endeavor to tell the story of the design and construction of world-renowned architect Frank O. Gehry's most ambitious undertaking to date--the stunning Ray and Maria Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sobol's comprehensive body of work offers a detailed look at the evolution of a major work by this master architect.
Richard Sobol's photography is represented worldwide by ZUMA Press represents Richard Sobol. To book him for an assignment, call 949.481.3747.
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