Mikhael Subotzky
Mikhael Subotzky (* 1981 in Cape Town , South Africa ) is an award-winning South African photographer, video artist and filmmaker based in Johannesburg . He is one of the youngest members of the Magnum photo agency . His photographic works, installations, videos, films and books have been and are exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.
Working as a photographer
In 2004 Mikhael Subotzky graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town. Since then he has mainly devoted himself to social reports from his homeland.
His first major work documented life in the area of the large Beaufort West prison . The illustrated book that emerged from it shows the world behind the bars of the notorious custodial institution - and the sometimes breakneck attempts by relatives and friends to make contact with prisoners. The book caused a sensation not only in the professional world.
For six years Mikhael Subotzky photographed life in and around Ponte City , a 54-story apartment building in Johannesburg in the shape of a cylinder, together with Patrick Waterhouse . It is the second tallest residential building in Africa. The building, built in 1976, was intended as a prestige address for well-off whites during the apartheid government . During the political upheaval in the 1980s and 1990s, the composition of the residents changed: in addition to refugees and students, criminal gangs moved in, and the original residents moved out. The house became a social hotspot, a symbol of violence and urban decay. Subotzky and Waterhouse gained the trust of the residents and were able to document the change with intimate pictures. They created a series of billboards from hundreds of contact sheets and presented them to the public in towering light boxes.
The photo book that resulted from the project, Ponte City , won, among other things, the 2015 Deutsche Börse Photo Prize .
In 2011 Mihael Subotzky was accepted as a full member of the Magnum photo agency.
Working as a video artist
The Johannesburg gallery Goodman presented a large-scale installation by Mikhael Subotzky at the 56th art exhibition of the Venice Biennale in May 2015 . It is called Pixel Interface II . To do this, the artist built three microscopes on a television screen, turned the images into abstracts and played with red, green and blue pixels.
Fonts
- Beaufort West . With an essay by Jonny Steinberg . Chris Boot, London 2008.
- With Anthea Bys and Sean O'Toole´ (text): Retinal Shift. Steidl Verlag , Göttingen 2012.
- With Patrick Waterhouse: Ponte City. Verlag Steidl, Göttingen 2014. Catalog of the exhibitions at Le Bal , Paris and the Photo Museum Antwerp 2014. ISBN 978-3-86930-750-3
- Vos Reves Nous Derangent. With photos by Subotzky, Dulce Pinzon and Achinto Bhadra, text by Mathieu PotteBonneville and Bertrand Ogilvie Verlag Actes Süd, Paris 2013.
Exhibitions
- 2005: Die Vier Hoeke = The Four Corners , Pollsmoor Prison, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 2008: New Photography: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky, Museum of Modern Art , New York .
- 2012: Retinal Shift, Standard Bank Young Artist 2012, Iziko South African Museum .
- 2014: With Patrick Waterhouse: Ponte City, Le Bal
Awards
- 2005: Special Jurors Award at the 2005 Seventh Recontres Africaines de la Photographie in Bamako
- 2006: Award for Concerned Photography, Fabrica
- 2007: KLM Paul Huf Award, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam - Foam ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- 2008: W. Eugene Smith Prize for Humanistic Photography. new York
- 2009: Oskar Barnack Award for Beaufort West .
- 2011: Together with Patrick Waterhouse for the Ponte City Discovery Award , in Rencontres d'Arles
- 2015: Photo award of the German stock exchange: together with Patrick Waterhouse for the photo book Ponte City .
- 2015: Rémi Ochlik Award at the International Festival of Photojournalism ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beaufort West by Mikhael Subotzky
- ↑ Free rooms in hell . Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 10, 2010.
- ↑ In the worst skyscraper in the world . In: Die Welt from June 13, 2009.
- ↑ Deutsche Börse Photo Prize 2015: 54 floors of slum floors in: Spiegel online from June 9, 2015.
- ↑ Thomas Alberts: On Transgression: Mikhael Subotzky at Pollsmoor Prison . Itch, 5: 70-71. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
- ^ Moma exhibition
- ↑ Standard Bank Young Artist 2012: Mikhael Subotzky Retinal Shift . Iziko South African Museum. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
- ↑ le-bal.fr ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ " Winner 2009 , leica-oskar-barnack.com. Accessed 17 May 2014.
- ^ " Leica announces the winner of the Oskar Barnack Award 2009 ", Photography Monthly, July 10, 2009. Accessed May 17, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Subotzky, Mikhael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African photographer, video artist, member of the Magnum photo agency |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cape Town , South Africa |