Mikhael subotzky biography definition us history

Have you been back to Beaufort West since ? What has changed? Not much has changed: it is still the vibrant but impoverished town that I got to know.

Born in Cape Town, , Subotzky has undertaken several ambitious projects in the last fifteen years.

Sadly they are in the midst of a terrible drought in the area so there are serious water shortages. The Leica Oskar Barnack Award is granted to series. What role do series play for you compared to individual pictures? For me the series and the individual picture are always equally important. I aim for the impossible - that each photograph can stand on its own and be a perfect part of the series puzzle.

What have been your most important projects over the past ten years? It deals with an iconic apartment block in Johannesburg. We photographed the building and the people living there over a period of six years. In addition, I have conceived a touring exhibition called Retinal Shift, that includes my first film work, Moses and Griffiths.

Born in in Cape Town, South Africa, Mikhael Subotzky is a multidisciplinary artist who works across multiple media, including photography, video, film and.

My second film is titled WYE. What are you working on at the moment? Working with found images as well as my own photographs, they have been radically re-contextualised, smashed, split in half, and reconstituted into forms that I see as being a more honest reflection of these images than their original form. Over the past two years this practice has been extended to include paintings on canvas and other works on paper and canvas.