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Portfolio - Die Vier Hoeke: The Four Corners 

Mikhael Subotzky 

“The prison, that darkest region in the apparatus of justice, is the place where the power to punish, which no longer dares to manifest itself openly, silently organizes a field of objectivity in which punishment will be able to function openly as treatment and the sentence be inscribed among the discourses of knowledge.”

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

“In the light of our history where denial of the right to vote was used to entrench white supremacy and to marginalize the great majority of the people of our country, it is for us a precious right which must be... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Exercise yard, Pollsmoor Maximum... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison.... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. CAPE TOWN. 2004. Prisoners perform "pasvang", Pollsmoor... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Porterville. 2004. Exercise yard, Voorberg Prison.... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Marc, Pollsmoor Maximum Security... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Court Cell, Pollsmoor Maximum... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Porterville. 2004. Prisoners practice traditional... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Matchstick boat, Pollsmoor Maximum... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Prisoner climbs up to window to... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. "Non-contact" visiting center,... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Porterville. 2004. Voorberg Prison. 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Porterville. 2004. Voorberg Prison. 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Exercise yard, Pollsmoor Maximum... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison.... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Jonny Fortune baths in the industrial... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Exercise, Pollsmoor Maximum Security... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. A preacher is reflected in the... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Prisoners climb over a dividing... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Corridor, Pollsmoor Maximum Security... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Near Encobo. 2004. Collecting water after the funeral... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. A warder demonstrates apartheid-era... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison.... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Near Encobo. 2004. Loyanda Motomi's brother washes... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Near Encobo. 2004. The village headman after the... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Laundry, Pollsmoor Maximum Security... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Laundry, Pollsmoor Maximum Security... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

South Africa. Cape Town. 2004. Prisoners are strip-searched as... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Near Encobo. 2004. Loyanda Motomi is buried. Loyanda... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

South Africa. Cape Town. 2004. Johnny Fortune climbs out of the... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Jonny Fortune baths in the industrial... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Kitchen, Pollsmoor Maximum Security... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2004

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2004. Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison.... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Male and Female prisoners take... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Prisoners sleep in an overcrowded... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Corridor, Pollsmoor Maximum Security... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Three prisoners share a single... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Three prisoners share a single... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Prisoners climb between the sentenced... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Prisoners climb between the sentenced... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

South Africa. Cape Town. 2004. Cell 33 E2 Section (5), Pollsmoor... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Tattoo being made, Pollsmoor Maximum... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Prisoners sleep in an overcrowded... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Prisoners sleep in an overcrowded... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Prisoners sleep in an overcrowded... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Corridor, Pollsmoor Maximum Security... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Corridor, Pollsmoor Maximum Security... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2005

SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. 2005. Corridor, Pollsmoor Maximum Security... 

Mikhael Subotzky 2008

South Africa, Cape Town. Portrait of Maplank and Naomi, Pollsmoor... 
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