The theme of this year’s Moscow Photo Biennial is the road. Mikhael Subotzky’s road leads us to a prison, one located right in the middle of an intersection, right in the middle of a city, it radiates out from the prison. You would have to be South African to imagine such a concept. Subotzky, 31, is fascinated by prisons. He has made it an important theme of his reportages, highly acclaimed in his native South Africa and abroad (Arles, New York, London). A book has already been made from this 2006 reportage, Beaufort West. In 2007 Subotzky joined the prestigious Magnum photos agency.
Read the full text of this article by Emmanuel Grynszpan on the French version of La Lettre.
Until 15 avril
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Ostozhenka, 16
Moscow, Russia
