Mikhael Subotzky – Ponte City: A Portrait of Johannesburg

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Ponte City: A Portrait of Johannesburg – Photographs by Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse | LensCulture

Like a failed science-fiction utopia, this Apartheid-era residential tower has become the city’s “focal point [of] dreams and nightmares, seen as refuge or monstrosity, dreamland or dystopia, a lightning rod for a society’s hopes and fears…”

via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mikhael-subotzky-ponte-city-a-portrait-of-johannesburg#slide-18

Like a failed science-fiction utopia, the dreams of Ponte were quickly dashed against the sharp truths of reality. Even the initial fantasies never came to fruition and then the tower began its long descent into infamy and decay