His work has been published in a number of monographs and many catalogues, and is held in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

In the summer of 2005, Sobol went with a film crew to Guatemala to make a documentary about a young Mayan girl's first trip to the ocean.

Commenting on the book, Miranda Gavin appreciates how "the sensitivity of his approach shines through the work and sets him apart as one of a new generation of photographers with the ability to allow eroticism and danger to seep through his images without becoming sordid or clichéd."

In 2008, Sobol worked in Bangkok where he photographed children fighting for survival in the Sukhumvit slums, despite the country's growing economic prosperity.

For Arrivals and Departures (2013), Sobol rode the Trans-Siberian Railway over the course of several month-long trips, from Moscow, through Russia, Mongolia, and China.