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Patrick Waterhouse
Ponte city mikhael subotzky and patrick waterhouse
Patrick Waterhouse (born August 13, 1981) is a British artist. His work involves photography, drawing and graphic design. He has published books of his work and been exhibited internationally. Since 2011 he has been editor-in-chief of Colors magazine. In the same year he won the Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles for Ponte City, a collaboration with Mikhael Subotzky.
Ponte city by mikhael subotzky and patrick waterhouse book launch at fnb joburg art fair 2014
Life and work
Waterhouse graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2001. After working in London for some years he began a residency at Fabrica research centre in Italy. While at Fabrica he created a fully illustrated version of Dante's Inferno with notation by Walter Hutton, that was published by Mondadori.
In 2007 he and Mikhael Subotzky began a 6 year collaboration photographing and documenting Ponte City Apartments, a 54 story building in Johannesburg, during its failed development and the subsequent aftermath. It won the Discovery Award at Rencontres d'Arles In 2011. Their book Ponte City (2014), published by Steidl, won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015.
In 2011 Waterhouse became Editor in Chief of Colors magazine. During this time he created a new editorial direction for the publication, the Colors Survival Guides.
Publications
L’Inferno di Dante Luna Storia Naturale. Milan: Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 8804601418. With notation by Walter Hutton.
Ponte City. Göttingen: Steidl; Walther Collection, 2014. ISBN 9783869307503. With Mikhael Subotzky, edited by Ivan Vladislavic.
Catalog of an exhibition held at Le Bal, Paris, Fotomuseum, Belgium in 2014 and Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh in 2015.
