1994 – Portrait #16
2016 · wood (plant material), RC paper
height: 120 cm, depth: 4 cm, height: 124.3 cm, width: 164.3 cm, depth: 4 cm, width: 160.1 cm
Rijksmuseum
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Pieter Hugo
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Pieter Hugo is a South African photographer working in large-format color and black-and-white portraiture whose practice interrogates identity, labor, and the legacies of colonialism and apartheid through sustained engagement with marginalized communities across Africa and beyond. His work is characterized by unflinching formal clarity and extended serial investigations that resist easy narrative closure, creating psychologically complex portraits that refuse didactic simplification.
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