Lorenzo Vitturi: We Need More Markets
“It is an aesthetic examination of the material of everyday life that barely impinges on representational issues and I love that about it.”
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A Conversation with Pieter Hugo – Xenophobia, Self-Censorship and the Commodity of ‘Blackness’
“We live in an era where artists constantly have to self censor. In my experience more often to pander to a disingenuous idea of political correctness than to conservatism.”
Pieter Hugo and the Hyena Men – “The Dog’s Master” (2007)
“The first series of pictures had caused varying reactions from people – inquisitiveness, disbelief and repulsion. People were fascinated by them, just as I had been by that first cellphone photograph.” The Dog’s Master By Pieter Hugo These photographs came about after a friend emailed me an image taken on a cellphone through a […]