Pieter Hugo
Pieter Hugo NYT 2020

January 2020
New York Times

'‘I’m Finished When I Start Looking at the World in a Different Way', The photographer Pieter Hugo, who has captured scenes from Nigeria to Mexico, takes T inside his studio.': artist profile and questionnaire by Osman Can Yerebakan

AnOther Mag, 15 October 2024
Miss Rosen delves into Pieter Hugo's Californian Wildflowers, finding the series a 'humanising and vivid portrait of people on the margins'.

The Guardian, July 2021

'The South African photographer’s latest show, at Arles photography festival, features 100 striking portraits tackling identity in his home country, death in Mexico and homelessness in the US,' writes Mee-Lai Stone

Polka Magazine, June 2021

Dimitri Beck interviews Pieter Hugo for Polka's 53rd issue, discussing Hugo's latest exhibition Being Present at Rencontres d'Arles and his gravitation toward and affinity with portraiture

British Journal of Photography, April 2020

'Under Hugo’s lens, we are all broken cockroaches, fighting the dying of the light – and singing of it too' writes Tom Seymour on Pieter Hugo's treatment of mortality in La Cucaracha

Another Man Magazine, October 2019

Ted Stansfield interviews Pieter Hugo on his new body of work, La Cucaracha, which is currently on show at Priska Pasquer in Cologne

Sunday Times, September 2019

Sean O'Toole reviews La Cucaracha observing, 'Hugo’s ability to mobilise formula, to creatively weaponise exhausted poses and hackneyed subjects, makes his work unavoidable, compelling too'

The Guardian, July 2018

Pieter Hugo talks to Edward Siddons about 'his best photograph: the hyena men of Nigeria'

The New Yorker, February 2017

'Pieter Hugo’s “1994”: Children And The Ghosts Of National Trauma' by Philip Gefter

The Guardian, June 2016

'Born free': Pieter Hugo’s new project captures the young faces born in the aftermath of genocide and apartheid, writes Charlotte Jansen

American Suburb X, June 2015

'A Conversation with Pieter Hugo: Xenophobia, Self-Censorship and the Commodity of "Blackness"' by Michael Salu 

Phillips Talks (Livestream), May 2015

Pieter Hugo and Lou Proud, Phillips' Head of Photographs in London, discuss Hugo's image-making process and work over the last decade

California Sunday Magazine, May 2015

'In the Tenderloin: Scenes from San Francisco's most infamous neighborhood': A portfolio of images by Pieter Hugo

New York Times, April 2014

'Portraits of Reconciliation': A series of photographs by Pieter Hugo taken in southern Rwanda, a commission exploring the theme of forgiveness

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