Tag: Pieter Hugo

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 and in regions of Mexico including Hermosillo, Oaxaca de Juárez and Juchitán, during several month-long trips in 2018-19. Prompted to make work in Mexico for an exhibition on the theme of sex and death, the resulting photographs embody Mexican attitudes on the subjects in both deliberately staged vignettes and in raw, vibrantly colored images of everyday people, landscapes and objects. As the artist describes his obsession with the country, “Mexico’s anarchic, visceral energy got under my skin and sucked me in”.

January 15, 2020
lenscratch: Pieter Hugo

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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 a week, using low cost equipment, basic scripts, actors cast the day of the shooting, and improvised locations, with no permits necessary.

January 10, 2020
Pieter Hugo, Between the devil and the deep blue sea – The Eye of Photography

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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 as the country’s history. His special interest is subcultures, the gap between ideal and reality. He portrays the homeless, albinos and AIDS sufferers as well as men who tame hyenas, snakes and monkeys or collect electronic waste. His models are Nollywood actors (African film industry) in costume and pose, but also his own family and friends. This is brought together in the exhibition Pieter Hugo: Between the devil and the deep blue sea, a retrospective of the photographer’s career at the Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in Dortmund, in Germany, on view until May 13, 2018.

January 10, 2020
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 Africas post-apartheid era. Later on, his portraits of Nigerian gangs wielding chained hyenas in intimidating poses brought international recognition. Traversing Africa, clearly unafraid to venture out to areas earlier closed to South African passport holders, Pieter has shot starkly direct portraits of young and old, often against a backdrop of ravaged landscapes and still life images. His photo work includes Rwandan children a decade after the genocide; Ghanaian city workers at toxic recycling dumps; Ghanas rural wild honey collectors, donning make-shift tree leaves against dangerous bee stings; South Africans with albinism; and, intimate looks at family and friends, as well as self-portraits.

May 14, 2019
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

April 10, 2014
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.

October 1, 2013
Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide

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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.”

January 27, 2012
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

December 2, 2011
Pieter Hugo Ghana, Noxious trash

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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

September 22, 2011
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)

January 10, 2011
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.

August 11, 2008
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.

July 22, 2008