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Pieter Hugo is rapidly climbing to the top of his game. It's predicted that he'll be one of the world's greats by the year 2025: his images formed part of the recent exhibition ReGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, 2005-2025 at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, and appear in the accompanying book published by Thames & Hudson. Smart, ambitious, talented - he's set to go far further than his zoom lens can take him…
Brazen. And inquisitive. These two words encapsulate both the personality and the work of Pieter Hugo. This 29-year-old photographer is not ashamed to train his lens on sensitive subject matter from which others might shy away. You need only look at his images of the Rwandan genocide, or his series Looking Aside, which focuses on people of unusual appearance, to understand the uncomfortable terrain where he feels most at home. Although fearless and confrontational in their enquiry, his images have nonetheless a strident and arresting beauty.
Getty Images are enamored with this fresh, fearless approach, claiming him as one of their "Young Photographers". Lewis Blackwell of Getty is not the only one to have recognised his worth. Pieter has held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (Rome), Fabrica Features (Lisbon) and at the Michael Stevenson in Cape Town, his agent. His work has appeared in several local publications and he enjoys an ongoing relationship with Colors magazine.
His commercial clients include Adidas, Fuji, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation. To view more of his images visit www.michaelstevenson.com.
Brazen. And inquisitive. These two words encapsulate both the personality and the work of Pieter Hugo. This 29-year-old photographer is not ashamed to train his lens on sensitive subject matter from which others might shy away. You need only look at his images of the Rwandan genocide, or his series Looking Aside, which focuses on people of unusual appearance, to understand the uncomfortable terrain where he feels most at home. Although fearless and confrontational in their enquiry, his images have nonetheless a strident and arresting beauty.
Getty Images are enamored with this fresh, fearless approach, claiming him as one of their "Young Photographers". Lewis Blackwell of Getty is not the only one to have recognised his worth. Pieter has held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (Rome), Fabrica Features (Lisbon) and at the Michael Stevenson in Cape Town, his agent. His work has appeared in several local publications and he enjoys an ongoing relationship with Colors magazine.
His commercial clients include Adidas, Fuji, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation. To view more of his images visit www.michaelstevenson.com.
