Patrick Waterhouse (born 13 August 1981) is a British artist. His work involves photography, drawing and graphic design. He has published books of his work and been exhibited internationally. Since 2011 he has been editor-in-chief of Colors magazine. In the same year he won the Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles for Ponte City, a collaboration with Mikhael Subotzky.

Life and work

Waterhouse graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2001. After working in London for some years he began a residency at Fabrica research centre in Italy. While at Fabrica he created a fully illustrated version of Dante's Inferno[1] with notation by Walter Hutton, that was published by Mondadori.

In 2007 he and Mikhael Subotzky began a 6 year collaboration photographing and documenting Ponte City Apartments,[2] a 54 story building in Johannesburg, during its failed development and the subsequent aftermath. It won the Discovery Award at Rencontres d'Arles In 2011.[3] Their book Ponte City (2014),[4] published by Steidl,[5] won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015.[6]

In 2011 Waterhouse became Editor in Chief of Colors magazine. During this time he created a new editorial direction for the publication, the Colors Survival Guides.[7]

Publications

Colors magazine

ISSN 2227-2992 (Australia/New Zealand/UK Edition); ISSN 2227-2984 (Hong Kong/Taiwan/China Edition).

Awards

Exhibitions

References

  1. ^ L’Espresso, 16 September 2010.
  2. ^ Foam Magazine Ponte City Report(Summer 2011)
  3. ^ a b O'Hagan, Sean (11 July 2011) "Tower blocks and tomes dominate the Rencontres d'Arles", The Guardian
  4. ^ Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn (2014) on Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse,Aperture.
  5. ^ Steidl, Gottingen,Germany.
  6. ^ a b "Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015" Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, Photographers' Gallery London.
  7. ^ Magazine of the week: COLORS 86 Magculture Blog (19 April 2013)
  8. ^ Armon Azoulay, Ellie. ArtForum Review, ArtForum Magazine, New York.
  9. ^ a b "Ponte City" Archived 2015-03-20 at the Wayback Machine, Le Bal, Paris (January 2014).
  10. ^ a b "Ponte City", National Galleries Scotland (December 2014).
  11. ^ Recent Works, Goodman Gallery Cape Town with Mikhael Subotzky 2010.
  12. ^ Happiness & Other Survival Techniques, Domus, Italy, April 2012.
  13. ^ A Different Kind of Order, International Center of Photography Triennial, New York, 2013.
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