Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo’s striking photographs depict marginalized subjects across the globe. The artist began his career capturing life across Africa and has, in recent years, ventured beyond the continent. Throughout his stylized, posed portraits and landscapes, Hugo has captured bush fires in Oaxaca, itinerant entertainers who perform with hyenas, and a technology dumpsite in Ghana. His frames focus on both the human and the extraordinary circumstances of peripheral, contemporary societies. Hugo has exhibited extensively in cities including New York, London, Paris, Cape Town, Vienna, and Barcelona and has participated in the São Paulo Bienal, the Beijing Photo Biennial, and the Bamako Encounters African Biennale of Photography. His work belongs in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Foam Fotografiemuseum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Rijksmuseum, among others.