Background information
"The cemetery of the technological world. At a garbage dump in Ghana, people live in the cemetery of our technological world, where millions of tons of discarded computers are dumped and partially burned to recover recyclable raw materials, a contaminated wasteland that pollutes the air and groundwater.
Content
In his haunting, intriguing photo essay, 'Permanent Error', Pieter HUGO exposes the repressed flip side of our fast-moving consumption and tells the story of a poverty-stricken community, of human strength and the will to survive of each individual." (© Prestel, 2011)
About the South African photographer, Pieter HUGO (b. 1976, in Cape Town)
Photo books by Pieter HUGO
- Photographer(s)
- Pieter HUGO
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 29,5 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color ills.
- Language(s)
- English
- Year of Release
- 2011
- Publisher
- Prestel Verlag, Munich