Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo (born 1976 in Cape Town) is a South African photographer who focuses on portraits and documentaries from his native South Africa and Africa.

Hugo lives and works in a loft in Cape Town with views of Table Mountain.

Exhibitions

  • 2012: This Must Be the Place, Photo Museum The Hague and the Musée de l' Elysée, Lausanne
  • 2013: This Must Be The Place - Selected Works 2003-2012, Palace of Arts, Budapest

Documentation

  • 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. ( Recyclables viewfinder on garbage dumps in Ghana)
  • Nollywood. in English; Prestel Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7913-4312-9. ( Nigerian Movie )
  • The Hyena and Other Men Prestel Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3960-3. ( Hyena people of Nigeria )
  • Musina / Messina. Punctum Press, Rome 2007, ISBN 978-88-95410-03-6. ( Life in the northernmost town in South Africa Musina )
  • Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide. Punctum Press, Rome 2006, ISBN 88-89412-20-8. ( Traces of the genocide in Rwanda)
  • Looking Aside. ( About the away at the disabled, etc.)
  • The Bereaved. ( About the surviving dependents of deceased )
  • Spoek Mathombo: Control. 3'33 taken with a Canon camera
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