Pieter Hugo
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No direction home: Pieter Hugo’s portraits of outsiders – in pictures
The South African photographer’s latest show, at Arles photography festival, features 100 striking portraits tackling identity in his home country, death in Mexico and homelessness in the US
The big picture
The big picture: Pieter Hugo turns his camera on MexicoThe extraordinary and the everyday jostle for attention in the South African photographer’s examination of Mexican culture
My best shot
Pieter Hugo's best photograph: the hyena men of Nigeria‘They would beat drums to draw a crowd. Then they’d take the muzzles off the hyenas and put their heads between their jaws’
Pieter Hugo: portraits of South Africa - in pictures
Confronting issues of race and injustice, Pieter Hugo’s latest exhibition, Kin, is on show in New York. We look at the highlights
Sean O'Hagan on photography
Pieter Hugo: seeing South Africa anewKin, a moving new exhibition in New York, asks troubling questions about the photographer's conflicted homeland, writes Sean O'Hagan
Back to black: Les Rencontres d'Arles 2013 – video review
Sean O'Hagan visits the 44th Rencontres d'Arles photo festival, which explores whether black-and-white photography is still valid in today's digital world
Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012 – in pictures
Pieter Hugo, Rinko Kawauchi, John Stezaker and Christopher Williams are the four photographers shortlisted for this year's £30,000 Deutsche Börse photography prize. Their work goes on display at The Photographers' Gallery from 13 July. View some of their images here
This Must Be the Place by Pieter Hugo - review
Pieter Hugo's photographic retrospective offers a provocative view of life on the edge of sub-Saharan African society, writes Sean O'Hagan
Sean O'Hagan on photography
Photography books of the year 2011: a snapshot of Christmas gift ideasFrom the Ruins of Detroit to the New York subway, via Elin Høyland's touching portrait of two brothers and Pieter Hugo's haunting images of Rwanda, Sean O'Hagan looks back at his favourite photobooks of 2011
Sean O'Hagan on photography
Worlds apart: who has the best shot at winning the Deutsche Börse prize?Sean O'Hagan: The photography prize has an intriguing shortlist of very different artists – Rinko Kawauchi, Pieter Hugo, John Stezaker and Christopher Williams. I know who my favourite is ...
Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012 shortlist is unveiled
Pieter Hugo, Rinko Kawauchi, John Stezaker and Christopher Williams are in the frame for photography prize
Sean O'Hagan on photography
Pieter Hugo photographs the lingering legacy of the Rwanda genocideSean O'Hagan: The still-visible aftermath of the 1994 atrocities forms the focus of one of Hugo's projects, in which he challenges the camera's power to portray things as they really are
Music blog
The debt Beyoncé owes visual artistsAlex Needham: The video for Run the World (Girls) recalls the work of South African photographer Pieter Hugo. But is it homage or appropriation?
Pieter Hugo's unseen Africa
South African photographer Pieter Hugo is causing a stir with his unsettling images of the continent's marginal people
Africa as you've never seen it
Pieter Hugo is a young South African photographer causing a stir and winning prizes for his unsettling images of the continent's marginal people
