When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Photographer Mikhael Subotzky puts South Africa in the frame. The story of how Mikhael Subotzky ...

When protests broke out across South Africa in late 2015 over exorbitant hikes in university fees, artist Mikhael Subotzky says, he was sympathetic to the students’ anger, though not necessarily ...

In 2008, South African photographer Mikhael Subotzky moved into a showroom apartment called “Future Slick.” It was a showpiece of New Ponte, an ambitious reboot of Africa's tallest residential ...

Ponte City from Yeoville Ridge, from the series Ponte City, 2008. South African photographer Mikhael Subotzky and British artist Patrick Waterhouse won the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Prize ...

The changing fortunes of Ponte City, a notorious Johannesburg skyscraper, reflect broader shifts in South African society. For their images of the building and its inhabitants, Mikhael Subotzky and ...

The core of the building in mid-2008 as workers clear building rubble that had been thrown there as the only way of getting it down from the apartments. The core of the building in mid-2008 as workers ...

On a windswept shore near a zebra-striped lighthouse at Cape Recife, just outside Port Elizabeth on South Africa's eastern coast, a fictional metal prospector, white man Craig Hare, combs the beach.

Subotzky and Waterhouse's portrait of a South African skyscraper explodes the idea of the photobook, says Rachel Segal Hamilton Hillbrow View, Ponte City, Johannesburg, 2008 Credit: Photo: Mikhael ...

The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation opened two new exhibitions at The Cube on 19 February 2026: “Worlds within Worlds” with works by students from the University of Art and Design Offenbach (HfG ...

Mikhael Subotzky is a South African artist known for his installation, film, video and photographic work. Born in 1981 in Capetown, South Africa, he studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the ...