“For me,
photography has become a way of attempting to make sense of the very strange
world that I see around me. I don’t ever expect to achieve that understanding,
but the fact that I am trying comforts me.” Mikhael Subotzky
Mikhael Subotzky
was born in Cape Town
in 1981. He became the youngest member of the prestigious Magnum agency aged
just 31 and he was recently named winner of the 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist
Award.
Subotzky was
influenced from an early age by his uncle, Gideon Mendel, one of South Africa’s
notable ‘struggle photographers’. Subotzky adopts the directness of the social
documentary mode while questioning the photographic medium itself.
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