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Mikhael Subotzky
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Mikhael Subotzky (born Cape Town, South Africa, 1981) is a South African artist based in Johannesburg. His installation, film, video and photographic work have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries, and received awards including the KLM Paul Huf Award, W. Eugene Smith Grant, Oskar Barnack Award and the Discovery Award at Rencontres d'Arles. He has published the books Beaufort West (2008), Retinal Shift (2012) and, with Patrick Waterhouse, Ponte City (2014). Subotzky is a member of Magnum Photos,
For his book Beaufort West, Subotzky photographed in and around a prison built within a traffic circle in the town of Beaufort West.
For six years he and Patrick Waterhouse collaborated in photographing in Ponte City, a 54-storey cylindrical building in Johannesburg – the tallest residential tower block in Africa – resulting in their book and exhibition Ponte City. They photographed the residents, interiors and exteriors of the building, and produced a series of giant tableaux, made up of hundreds of contact sheets, presented in towering light boxes. Their book Ponte City won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015.
Subotzky became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2007 and a full member in 2011.
London: Chris Boot, 2014. ISBN 9781905712113. Special edition.
Retinal Shift. Göttingen: Steidl, 2012. ISBN 9783869305394. Edited by Ivan Vladislavic, texts by Anthea Buys and Sean O'Toole. Catalogue for his Standard Bank Young Artist Exhibition.
Mikhael Subotzky: photographe = photographer. Montreuil: l'Oeil, 2007. ISBN 9782351370391. Text in English and French.
Publications with others
Ponte City. Göttingen: Steidl, 2014. ISBN 9783869307503. With Patrick Waterhouse, edited by Ivan Vladislavic. Catalog of an exhibition held at Le Bal, Paris and Fotomuseum Antwerp, Belgium in 2014.
Vos Reves Nous Derangent. Paris: Actes Sud, 2013. ISBN 978-2330022204. Photographs by Subotzky, Dulce Pinzon and Achinto Bhadra, texts by Mathieu Potte-Bonneville and Bertrand Ogilvie; includes text in English by Fred Ritchin translated into French by Sally Laruelle.
Exhibitions
2005: Die Vier Hoeke = The Four Corners, Pollsmoor Prison, Cape Town, South Africa.