Tag: Pieter Hugo
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Juxtapoz Magazine – La Cucaracha: Pieter Hugo in Mexico
Juxtapoz Magazine – La Cucaracha: Pieter Hugo in Mexico Known for photographing communities on the periphery of society in Africa, South African artist Pieter Hugo similarly immersed himself in Mexico City… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/la-cucaracha-peter-hugo-in-mexico/ Known for photographing communities on the periphery of society in Africa, South African artist Pieter Hugo similarly immersed himself in Mexico City…
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lenscratch: Pieter Hugo
Link: Pieter Hugo is a photographer that consistently offers imagery that is startling, mezmerizing, and other worldly. His new series, Nollywood, is no exception. Hugo takes a look at the third largest film industry in the world, but it’s very different than world of movie-making we are familiar with. Movies are produced and marketed in…
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Pieter Hugo, Between the devil and the deep blue sea – The Eye of Photography
Link: What separates, what connects us? How do people live with the shadows of cultural oppression or political domination? The South African photographer Pieter Hugo, born in 1976 in Johannesburg, explores these questions in his portraits, still lifes and landscape photographs. In his images, Pieter Hugo captures the traces and scars of people as well…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – From Africa to China with Pieter Hugo
Juxtapoz Magazine – From Africa to China with Pieter Hugo Pieter Hugo is probably best known for his brutally frank portraits of his “kin,” mainly the Afrikaners of South Africa’s post-apartheid era. Later on… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/from-africa-to-china-with-photographer-pieter-hugo/ Pieter Hugo is probably best known for his brutally frank portraits of his “kin,” mainly the Afrikaners of South…
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Portraits of Reconciliation
Portraits of Reconciliation 20 years after the genocide in Rwanda, these perpetrators and survivors are standing for forgiveness. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/magazine/06-pieter-hugo-rwanda-portraits.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Last month, the photographer Pieter Hugo went to southern Rwanda, two decades after nearly a million people were killed during the country’s genocide, and captured a series of unlikely, almost unthinkable tableaus
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Pieter Hugo: “Kin” explores the South African photographer’s idea of his native country
Portraits of a Complex South Africa Warning: This post contains nudity. via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/10/01/pieter_hugo_kin_explores_the_south_african_photographer_s_idea_of_his_native.html Pieter Hugo’s “Kin” is the photographer’s examination of his native South Africa in which he focuses on his country from both a collective and personal narrative.
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Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide
Link: Foto8 Pieter Hugo resolved to visit, ‘photographing and contemplating’ the sites of Rwanda’s carnage. The results of that journey are now published as Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide offering, he writes, “a glimpse of what I saw there before the reburials took place.”
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Shortlist for 2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize announced
British Journal of Photography Photographers Pieter Hugo, Rinko Kawauchi, John Stezaker and Christopher Williams have been selected as nominees for the 2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, organised by The Photographers’ Gallery
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Pieter Hugo Ghana, Noxious trash
la lettre: Pieter Hugo’s new series, Permanent Error, depicts Agbogbloshie, a massive dump site for technological waste on the outskirts of Ghana’s capital city, and the locals who burn down the components to extract bits of copper, brass, aluminum and zinc for resale
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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…
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Nollywood (Nigerian movie biz) captured in Pieter Hugo's photos – Boing Boing
Photographer Pieter Hugo, whose work I’ve blogged about before, has a spectacular new series of images out about Nigeria’s homegrown movie stars. Check it out here.
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Africa as you've never seen it
Pieter Hugo is a young South African photographer causing a stir and winning prizes for his unsettling images of the continent’s marginal people Check it out here.