11 Facts About Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo was born on 1976 and is a South African photographer who primarily works in portraiture.

Pieter Hugo has had solo exhibitions at Museu Colecao Berardo, Lisbon, Museum fur Kuns und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, National Portrait Gallery, London, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow and the South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

Pieter Hugo has been included in group exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, the Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands, Tate Modern, London, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, Michigan, and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago, Chile.

Pieter Hugo began his career working in the film industry in Cape Town, before undertaking a two-year residency at Fabrica research centre, Treviso, Italy.

Pieter Hugo has produced fashion photography features for Arena Homme Plus, Re-Edition Magazine, Document Journal, System Magazine and AnOther Man.

Pieter Hugo has collaborated on publications with Louis Vuitton and Hood By Air.

In 2011 Pieter Hugo collaborated with Michael Cleary, co-directing the music video for South African musician Spoek Mathambo's cover version of Joy Division's "She's Lost Control".

Pieter Hugo's work is governed by a self-taught approach to photography.

Pieter Hugo is one of a generation of post-Apartheid photographers that seeks to confront photography's history of representing marginalised and disempowered people.

Pieter Hugo's work aims to challenge preconceptions around the representation of groups of people 'other' to the Western European norm.

For Permanent Error Pieter Hugo photographed the people and landscape of an expansive dump of obsolete technology in Ghana.