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Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo (Born 1976) is active/lives in South Africa, Italy.  Pieter Hugo is known for Documentary photography, portrait.

Artist Statement:

THERE IS A PLACE IN HELL FOR ME AND MY FRIENDS

There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends is a series of head and shoulder identikit style portraits of my friends and me, all of whom call South Africa home. Through a digital process of converting colour images to black and white while manipulating the colour channels, I emphasize the pigment (melanin) in my sitters' skin so they appear heavily marked by blemishes and sun damage. The resulting portraits are the antithesis of the airbrushed images that constitute the canons of beauty in popular culture, and expose the contradictions of racial distinctions based on skin colour. As the critic Aaron Schuman writes, "although at first glance we may look 'black' or 'white', the components that remain 'active' beneath the surface consist of a much broader spectrum. What superficially appears to divide us is in fact something that we all share, and like these photographs, we are not merely black and whi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4391 characters.]  Artist bio

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