Patrick Waterhouse

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

• L’Inferno di Dante Luna Storia Naturale. Milan: Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 8804601418. With notation by Walter Hutton.
• Ponte City. Göttingen: Steidl; Walther Collection, 2014. ISBN 9783869307503. With Mikhael Subotzky, edited by Ivan Vladislavic.
• Catalog of an exhibition held at Le Bal, Paris,^[8][9] Fotomuseum, Belgium in 2014 and Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh in 2015.^[10]

Colors magazine

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

• Colors 81: Transport - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2011.
• Colors 82: Shit - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2011.
• Colors 83: Happiness - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2012.
• Colors 84: Apocalypse - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2012.
• Colors 85: Going to Market - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2012.
• Colors 86: Making the News - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2013.
• Colors 87: Looking at Art - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2013.
• Colors 88: Protest - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2013.
• Colors 89: Moving House - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2014.
• Colors 90: Football - a Survival Guide. Hong Kong: IdN Magazine; Treviso, Italy: Fabrica, 2014.

Awards

• 2011: Discovery Award, Les Rencontres d'Arles, with Mikhael Subotzky for Ponte City.^[3]
• 2015: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.^[6]

Exhibitions

• 2010:
  • Recent Works, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, 2010 with Mikhael Subotzky.^[11]
• 2011:
  • Appropriated Landscapes, The Walther Collection in Neu Ulm, Germany.^{[citation needed]}
  • Transport, Hong Miao Gallery, Shanghai, China.^{[citation needed]}
• 2012:
  • The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool.^{[citation needed]}
  • Happiness and other survival techniques, Design Museum, London.^[12]
  • DOC Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil. With Projeto Quixote and Unhate Foundation.^{[citation needed]}
• 2013:
  • A Different Kind of Order, International Center of Photography Triennial, New York.^[13]
  • My Jo'burg, La Maison Rouge, France.^{[citation needed]}
  • L'inferno, Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Cassino (CAMUSAC), Italy.^{[citation needed]}
• 2014
  • Ponte City, Le Bal, Paris, January–April 2014. With Mikhael Subotzky.^[9]
  • Ponte City, FOMU, Antwerp, June–November 2014. With Mikhael Subotzky.^{[citation needed]}
  • Ponte City, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, December 2014–April 2015.^[10]