Edition 2011

Mikhael Subotzky

Born in 1981 in Cape Town, South Africa. Lives and works in Johannesburg.

Mikhael Subotzky’s most recent body of work, Beaufort West, has been published in book form by Chris Boot Publishers and was the subject of the 2008 exhibition, New Photography: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky at MoMA in New York. His work has been exhibited in major galleries and museums, and his prints are in MoMA, the South African National Gallery, Cape Town, the Johannesburg Art Gallery and Foam photography museum, Amsterdam. Recent awards include the Oskar Barnack Award, the Lou Stouman Award, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant, the ICP Infinity Award, the KLM Paul Huf Award and the Special Jurors Award at the 2005 VIes Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie in Bamako. He is represented by Goodman Gallery, Studio La Citta and Magnum Photos and has been collaborating with the British artist, Patrick Waterhouse, for the past two years, on a new body of work based on a building in Johannesburg, Ponte City.
  • Institutional partners

    • République Française
    • Région Provence Alpes Côté d'Azur
    • Département des Bouches du Rhône
    • Arles
    • Le Centre des monuments nationaux est heureux de soutenir les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles en accueillant des expositions dans l’abbaye de Montmajour
  • Main partners

    • Fondation LUMA
    • BMW
    • SNCF
    • Kering
  • Media partners

    • Arte
    • Lci
    • Konbini
    • Le Point
    • Madame Figaro
    • France Culture