Pieter Hugo creates large-format portraits and photographic series across Africa and beyond, focusing on communities, labor, identity and the unstable ethics of representation. His work is visually direct and often deliberately uncomfortable.
Photography
Major Works
- 2005–07The Hyena & Other Men
- 2008–09Nollywood
- 2009–10Permanent Error
- 2006–13Kin
- 2011–12There’s a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends
- 2004Rwanda 2004: Vestiges of a Genocide
- 2003–06Looking Aside
- 20141994
- 2015Flat Noodle Soup Talk
- 2019La Cucaracha
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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