Pieter Hugo's series Nollywood portrays archetypal characters from the third-largest film industry in the world, "Nollywood" in Nigeria. Nollywood films, with narratives rooted in local symbolic imagery, lean toward the macabre and melodramatic and are an example of self-representation in African culture. Using local actors to recreate scenes and characters inspired by the films, the ...

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Pieter Hugo - Nollywood at e x t r a s p a z i o gallery

A South African of Afrikaner origin, Pieter Hugo is one of the most representative photographers of his generation. With great capacity of penetration, his works explore the most striking contradictions of African societies, together with certain peripheral aspects which are nonetheless dense in meaning. For the production ...

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près « The Hyena and Other Men », un portfolio saisissant mettant en lumière une autre approche de l'animal de compagnie au Nigéria, Pieter Hugo récidive avec cette série qui explore les aspects de l'industrie cinématographique nigériane.
Nollywood est la troisième plus grande industrie cinématographique dans le m...

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Marks of Honour - A Striking Library

Marks of Honour is a photo book project and exhibition organised and curated by Nina Poppe and Verena Loewenhaupt.

MoH was conceived in order to reveal the inspiration that a new generation of photographers have gained from the history of photography in the form of books.

13 international photographers were invite...

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Pieter Hugo Emeka Onu. Enugu, Nigeria 2008 .

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... about Africa, presented by two African photographers of the post-Apartheid generation and a Dutch-Canadian photographer, seeking to give visibility to the inhabitants and to the complexity and nuances of African culture; such is the topic of the present exhibition. These young authors do not wish to exercise judgement upon the situations unfolding before their camera lenses, but instead, by...

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Michael Stevenson is pleased to present a solo exhibition of photographs by Pieter Hugo.

In the Nollywood series, Hugo explores the multilayered reality of the Nigerian film industry. Photographs from the series were included on the exhibition Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention at Michael Stevenson in May 2008. Hugo has subsequently returned to Nigeria to ex...

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»A Look Away« is the first of two exhibitions on Contemporary South African Art at Gallery Kuckei + Kuckei in Berlin. While the first show will focus on the latest developments in photography, the second part, titled »Why not?«, will present artists working in various mediums such as sculpture, installation, video and performance.

»A Look Away«...

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Michael Stevenson is pleased to present Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention. The exhibition will mark the opening of the gallery's new premises in Woodstock, Cape Town, on Thursday 15 May, and the gallery's fifth birthday celebrations.

In popular culture, the archetypal disguise is Superman's pair of glasses, which turn him into Clark Kent. This particular ca...

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THE DOG'S MASTER

These photographs came about after a friend emailed me an image taken on a cellphone through a car window in Lagos, Nigeria, which depicted a group of men walking down the street with a hyena in chains. A few days later I saw the image reproduced in a South African newspaper with the caption 'The Streets of Lagos'. Nigerian newspapers reported that these men were bank r...

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