Education
Subotzky graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2004.
Subotzky graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2004.
He has published the books Beaufort West (2008), Retinal Shift (2012) and, with Patrick Waterhouse, Ponte City (2014). Foreign his book Beaufort West, Subotzky photographed in and around a prison built within a traffic circle in the town of Foreign 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 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. Subotzky became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2007 and a full member in 2011. with others 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 New York
With Josephine Meckseper. 2012: Retinal Shift, Standard Bank Young Artist 2012, Iziko South African Museum.
2014: Ponte City, Le Bal, Paris, January–April 2014. With Patrick Waterhouse.
Subotzky is a member of Magnum Photos.