Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo (born October 29, 1976 in Johannesburg ) is a South African photographer who deals with portraits and documentaries from his home country South Africa and Africa . Hugo lives and works in a loft in Cape Town with a view of Table Mountain .

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2012: This Must Be the Place. The Hague Photo Museum and Musée de l'Elysée , Lausanne . Catalog.
• 2013: This Must Be The Place - Selected Works 2003-2012. Palace of Arts , Budapest
• 2015: Pieter Hugo - Kin. Henri-Cartier-Bresson Foundation , Paris.
• 2017: Pieter Hugo - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea . Wolfsburg Art Museum , Wolfsburg. Catalog.

Documentation

Photo books

• Exhibition catalog: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea , Prestel, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7913-8352-1 .
• with Ben Okri : Kin . Aperture, New York City, USA 2014, ISBN 978-1-597113014 .
• Exhibition catalog: This must Be the Place , Prestel Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7913-4689-2 .
• Permanent error. Prestel Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7913-4520-8 . (Recyclers on garbage dumps in Ghana )
• Nollywood. In English; Prestel Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7913-4312-9 . ( Nigerian film ).
• The Hyena and Other Men. Prestel Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3960-3 . ( Hyena people in Nigeria ).
• Musina / Messina. Punctum Press, Rome 2007, ISBN 978-88-95410-03-6 . (Life in Musina , the northernmost city in South Africa).
• Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide. Punctum Press, Rome 2006, ISBN 88-89412-20-8 . (Traces of the genocide in Rwanda ).

Photo series

• La Cucaracha , 2019.
• Flat Noodle Soup Talk , 2015–2016.
• Californian Wildflowers , 2014.
• There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends , 2011.
• Gadawan Kura - The Hyena Men Series II , 2007.
• Looking aside. (About looking away from the disabled etc.).
• The Bereaved. (Photo series about the bereaved of the deceased), 2005.

Music video

• Spoek Mathambo : Control. 3'33 min. (Taken with a Canon camera).

Web links

• Photographer website (English)
• Hellhounds in the cities. Pieter Hugo and his photos (Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 19, 2010)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official website
2. ↑ Palace of the Arts (Ludwig Museum) , May 24 - August 11, 2013
3. ↑ Where does the city end, where does the wilderness begin? in FAZ of March 31, 2017, page 11
4. ↑ Staged Reality. Everyone has the same respect . Klaus Mellenthin in frings. the Misereor magazine , 1/2017
5. ↑ For a handful of lead. In: FAZ . February 18, 2011, p. 32.