The Wedding Gift, Junchitán de Zaragoza

Pieter Hugo

B. South Africa, 1976

Highlights

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Pieter Hugo: La Cucaracha. On view at HUXLEY-PARLOUR in 2020

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Pieter Hugo. The Bricklayer, Oaxaca de Juárez (2018)

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Pieter Hugo: La Cucaracha. Installation view

The Works

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The Asylum Seeker, Hermosillo

2019

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

Black Friday, Oaxaca de Juárez

2018

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

First Communion, Mexico City

2019

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

Burning Bush, Oaxaca de Juárez

2018

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

The Wedding Gift, Junchitán de Zaragoza

2018

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

The Bricklayer, Oaxaca de Juárez

2018

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

The Hero Prop, Mexico City

2019

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

Rico, Oaxaca de Juárez

2018

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

Spring Blossom, Mexico City

2019

Archival pigment print

10

Pieter Hugo

Brujería, Juchitán de Zaragoza

2018

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

The Sceptic’s Proof, Mexico City

2019

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

The Snake Charmer, Hermosillo

2019

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

Muxe Portrait #3, Junchitán de Zaragoza

2018

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

Don Quixote, Oaxaca de Juárez

2018

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

The Mirthful Cowboy, Oaxaca de Juárez

2019

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

The Road that Goes Nowhere, Sonora

2019

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

The Road Home, Between Mexico City and Oaxaca de Juárez

2019

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

After Siqueiros, Oaxaca de Juárez

2018

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

Reclining Nude, Oaxaca de Juárez

2018

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

Bordello, Oaxaca de Juárez

2019

Archival pigment print

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Pieter Hugo

Mohammed Rabiu with Jamis, Asaba, Nigeria

2007

Digital c-type print

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Pieter Hugo

Emeka, Motorcyclist and Abdullahi Ahmadu, Asaba, Nigeria

2007

Digital c-type print

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Pieter Hugo

Portrait #16, South Africa

2016

Digital c-type print

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Pieter Hugo

Portrait #13, Rwanda

2014

Digital c-type print

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Pieter Hugo

Portrait #12, Rwanda

2015

Digital c-type print

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Pieter Hugo

Portrait #1, Rwanda

2014

Digital c-type print

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Portrait #17, South Africa

2016

Digital c-type print

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Mummy Ahmadu and a Snake Charmer with a Rock Python, Abuja, Nigeria

2005

Digital c-type print

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Pieter Hugo

The Hyena Men of Abuja, Lagos, Nigeria

2007

Digital c-type print

Pieter Hugo

B. South Africa 1976

Portrait of Pieter Hugo

B. South Africa 1976

Biography

Pieter Hugo’s work focuses on photographing marginalised communities and those on the periphery of society. Comprising portraiture and landscapes his work examines social and cultural traditions as well as a history of place. Working in series, Hugo has primarily photographed in South Africa and on the African continent, exploring contemporary life, issues of colonisation and the relation of tradition and modernity. He has also travelled extensively, producing series in the United States, China, and most recently, Mexico. 

Hugo was born in Johannesburg in 1976. Hugo has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, the Hague Museum of Photography, Netherlands, Fotografiska, Stockholm, the Ludwig Museum, Budapest and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. He has participated in group exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Tate Modern, London and the Sao Paulo Biennale. Hugo received the Discovery Award at the Recontres d’Arles Festival and the KLM Paul Huf Award in 2008, the Seydou Keita Award at the Recontres de Bamako African Photography Biennial in 2011, and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2012. In 2015, he was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet and was chosen as the ‘In Focus’ artist for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Hugo’s work is held in the permanent collections at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and Huis Marseille, France. 

He lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

Discover

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Exhibitions

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Pieter Hugo La Cucaracha, HUXLEY-PARLOUR, London

Pieter Hugo: La Cucaracha

19.2 - 14.32020

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