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Interview with Mikhael Subotzky
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This week on his blog Conscientious, Jörg Colberg posted an interview with magnum Photographer Mikhael Subotzky.
Jörg Colberg: A lot of your work so far has dealt with crime and punishment. You portrayed the conditions of prisons in South Africa, and your first book Beaufort West opens with an aerial shot of the little town, in whose very center there is a prison. How did you get interested in this subject matter?
copyright Mikhael Subotzky
copyright Mikhael Subotzky
Mikhael Subotzky: In 2004 we had our third democratic election in South Africa, and there was a prominent Constitutional Court case going on which was to decide whether prisoners could or couldn't vote. This question interested me in relationship to our history of disenfranchisement, but also in relation to the experience of living in South Africa at a time when crime levels were supposedly peaking.
Read more on Conscientious.
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