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"These photographs came about after a friend emailed me an image taken on a cellphone through a car window in Lagos, Nigeria, which depicted a group of men walking down the street with a hyena in chains. A few days later I saw the image reproduced in a South African newspaper with the caption ‘The Streets of Lagos’.
Nigerian newspapers reported that these men were bank robbers, bodyguards, drug dealers, debt collectors. Myths surrounded them. The image captivated me." (Pieter HUGO)
About the photographer, Pieter HUGO (b.1976):
Pieter HUGO was born in 1976 and lives in Cape Town.
He is the winner of the KLM Paul Huf Award 2008 and the Discovery Award 2008 at the Rencontres d'Arles festival.
His previous books include:
'Looking Aside' (2006),
'Messina/Musina' (2007),
'Nollywood' (2009),
'Permanent Error' (2011),
'Rwanda 2004. Vestiges of a genocide' (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) and
'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' (2017)
"These photographs came about after a friend emailed me an image taken on a cellphone through a car window in Lagos, Nigeria, which depicted a group of men walking down the street with a hyena in chains. A few days later I saw the image reproduced in a South African newspaper with the caption ‘The Streets of Lagos’.
Nigerian newspapers reported that these men were bank robbers, bodyguards, drug dealers, debt collectors. Myths surrounded them. The image captivated me." (Pieter HUGO)
About the photographer, Pieter HUGO (b.1976):
Pieter HUGO was born in 1976 and lives in Cape Town.
He is the winner of the KLM Paul Huf Award 2008 and the Discovery Award 2008 at the Rencontres d'Arles festival.
His previous books include:
'Looking Aside' (2006),
'Messina/Musina' (2007),
'Nollywood' (2009),
'Permanent Error' (2011),
'Rwanda 2004. Vestiges of a genocide' (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) and
'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' (2017)
- Photographer(s)
- Pieter HUGO
- Format
- HC with dust jacket, 24 x 28 x 2 cm., 80 pp., color ills.
- Language(s)
- English
- Year of Release
- 2008 (2007)
- Publisher
- Pressten Verlag, Munich