The Yellow Butterfly came to us as a tunder, from a serene and blue sky. Who knew
a delicate and vulnerable creature could give us a feeling of something steady and
powerful. Like some changes in life are sudden and radical, others are graduals and
almost invisible.
Yellow Butterfly is a collection of portraits made across countries and over years, yet the people, the rooms, and the gestures are bound together by a quiet mutation - an ongoing shifting of form and feeling. Like the butterfly itself, the work invites us to see transformation not as a moment, but as a continuous state: subtle, slow, sometimes invisible, but always alive beneath the surface.
At the end of the book, there is a poem in Danish and translated in English by Katharina Fredslund.
In Yellow Butterfly, the borders between self and other, body and space, presence and absence blur. In Katharina’s writing, these borders dissolve even further, reminding us that to be human is to be in constant transformation—fragile, fleeting, and yet profoundly connected.
Special edition
there are two prints of choice, select which one you want.
The prints are pigmented prints, 24×16 cm
edition of 25 + 2 ap
specifics:
20×25 cm
48 pages, 30 images b&w and color
from 2012 to 2018
Editors: Jacob Aue Sobol and Sara Aue Sobol
Supervisor: Sun Hee Engelstoft
Publisher: Sobol Books
Designer: Henriette Kruse
Text by: Katharina Fredslund
Printed at Narayana Press, Denmark
The Yellow Butterfly came to us as a tunder, from a serene and blue sky. Who knew
a delicate and vulnerable creature could give us a feeling of something steady and
powerful. Like some changes in life are sudden and radical, others are graduals and
almost invisible.
Yellow Butterfly is a collection of portraits made across countries and over years, yet the people, the rooms, and the gestures are bound together by a quiet mutation - an ongoing shifting of form and feeling. Like the butterfly itself, the work invites us to see transformation not as a moment, but as a continuous state: subtle, slow, sometimes invisible, but always alive beneath the surface.
At the end of the book, there is a poem in Danish and translated in English by Katharina Fredslund.
In Yellow Butterfly, the borders between self and other, body and space, presence and absence blur. In Katharina’s writing, these borders dissolve even further, reminding us that to be human is to be in constant transformation—fragile, fleeting, and yet profoundly connected.
Special edition
there are two prints of choice, select which one you want.
The prints are pigmented prints, 24×16 cm
edition of 25 + 2 ap
specifics:
20×25 cm
48 pages, 30 images b&w and color
from 2012 to 2018
Editors: Jacob Aue Sobol and Sara Aue Sobol
Supervisor: Sun Hee Engelstoft
Publisher: Sobol Books
Designer: Henriette Kruse
Text by: Katharina Fredslund
Printed at Narayana Press, Denmark
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