About the South African photographer, Pieter HUGO (b. 1976, in Johannesburg)

Pieter HUGO is a portrait photographer who also focuses on documentaries from his native South Africa and other African countries. He has published about a dozen photo books. He is the winner of the KLM Paul Huf Prize 2008 and the Discovery Award 2008 of the Rencontres d'Arles Festival in Southern France. Pieter HUGO lives and works in Cape Town.

Photo books by Pieter HUGO

'Looking Aside' (2006); 'Messina/Musina' (2007) and 'The Hyena & Other Men' (2007); 'Nollywood' (2009); 'Permanent Error' (2011); 'There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends' (2011); 'This must be the place' (2012); 'KIN' (2015); 'Flat Noodle Soup' (2016); '1994' (2017); 'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' (2017); 'La Cucaracha' (2019); 'Solus. Vol I. Concerning Atypical Beauty And Youth' (2021)


The photo book 'Hyena Men', first published in 2007, made the South African photographer Pieter HUGO known outside the photo book scene. There is something disturbing about the images of wandering fairmen who entertain people with their animals.
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Boxed HC - Special Edition (different design) with print, 28,6 x 25,4 x 3 cm., 120 pp., color ills., textv language: English
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The limited edition publication 'Rwanda 2004. Traces of a Genocide' shows older photographic works by Pieter HUGO. The book also includes an essay by investigative journalist Linda Melvern, in which she explains the situation in Rwanda in detail.
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In 'This Must Be The Place' we see how the photographer Pieter HUGO oscillates between political commitment, documentary responsibility and their relationship to his own (image) aesthetics. It includes 'The Hyena Men', 'Nollywood' and 'Permanent Error'.
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The book title '1994' commemorates an important year in the history of South Africa and Rwanda - here Mandela's election as president, there genocide. In retrospect, Pieter HUGO processed the events of the year with portraits of children and young people.
from 20,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
In 'Conversations', Rémi Coignet explores in interviews the question of what role the photo book plays in the work of photographers, designers & publishers and how their titles are conceived. Two more volumes with interviews have been published until now.
from 29,50 € Weight 0.3 kg
'Here We Are Today. Das Bild der Welt in Foto- & Videokunst' shows moving facets of our world. Factual-documentary, emotional, highly explosive - characteristic positions of the artistic examination of the central questions of globalized society are shown
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In his photo volume, 'KIN', South African photographer Pieter HUGO explores instead on his family the failure of South African colonization and his sense of being 'colonial driftwood', reflecting on the nature of conflicting personal collective narratives
from 48,00 €
In his new photo volume 'Solus. Vol.1', Pieter HUGO reflects on aesthetic values in the fashion industry. In portraits of models cast on the street, he examines the commercialization of youth and the paradox of striving for both otherness AND conformity.
from 55,00 € Weight 1.1 kg