INTERVIEW: "Pieter Hugo in Conversation with Joanna Lehan" (2007)

I’d been working as a photojournalist for newspapers but was never really any good at it. I found that my presence would affect a situation very much, and for me, trying to be a fly on the wall, capturing some sort of instant, just wasn’t working. I managed to buy a second-hand Hasselblad and took a trip to Namibia. Along the way I shot everything that caught my eye, including some railway workers who lived in the middle of the desert along the tracks. When I printed their portraits I felt more resonance with these prints than I ever had before with my photographs.

Link: INTERVIEW: “Pieter Hugo in Conversation with Joanna Lehan” (2007)