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Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo’s tragic beauty pushes the button of mortality
Friday
/ 25 October 2024

Pieter Hugo’s tragic beauty pushes the button of mortality

The photographer’s ambitious new exhibition What the Light Falls On is a free-ranging meditation on life

By Charles Leonard
Bopape rattles biennale cage
Article
/ 29 June 2018

Bopape rattles biennale cage

The South African artist’s new film about a rape challenges the curators and concepts of art

By Anthea Buys
Pieter Hugo: Melancholy etched in the flesh
Article
/ 17 October 2013

Pieter Hugo: Melancholy etched in the flesh

Photographer Pieter Hugo’s latest exhibition is a? "jolting meditation" on family, kinship and decaying nationhood.

By Sean Otoole
Documents of fictionalisation
Article
/ 8 February 2013

Documents of fictionalisation

The Loom of the Land shows South Africa through the eyes of more than 20 artists, but the exhibition’s politeness may leave art lovers unsatisfied.

By Sean Otoole 1
Hugo lays bare society’s scars
Article
/ 7 September 2012

Hugo lays bare society’s scars

Pieter Hugo’s latest work, the Pirelli-commissioned At Home series of nude portraits of South Africans at home is all imperfect humanity.

By Niren Tolsi
Paris, passion and curiosity
Article
/ 18 November 2011

Paris, passion and curiosity

African photographers were well represented at the showcase in Paris due to the drive of one collector.Natalie Dixon

By Natalie Dixon
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Article
/ 24 June 2011

Pieter Hugo wins Young Director Award at Cannes

South African photographers Pieter Hugo and Michael Cleary have won an award for their music video for Spoek Mathambo’s <i>Control</i>.

By Lisa Van Wyk
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Article
/ 6 May 2011

Through a racial lens, life is a beautiful mess

A new exhibition of South African photography in London documents both the disappointments of the post-Mandela era and the hopes of the ‘born frees’.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 16 May 2008

Blood and guts in Nollywood

Federica Angelucci, curator of photography at the Michael Stevenson Gallery, introduces Pieter Hugo’s images of the Nigerian film industry.

By Federica Angelucci
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Article
/ 6 July 2007

Looking in from the outside

Pieter Hugo’s new exhibition explores the politics of economic division, writes Monique Pelser.

By Monique Pelser

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