Pieter Hugo: portraits of South Africa - in pictures
Pieter Hugo’s latest exhibition, Kin, is at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York until 19 October. It confronts issues of race and injustice in Hugo’s homeland – as well as ‘the failure of the South African colonial experiment’. Below, Hugo talks us through a selection of his photographs
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Aerial view of Diepsloot, 2013
Photograph: Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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Ann Sallies, who worked for my parents and helped raise their children, Douglas, 2013
Photograph: Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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At a traffic intersection, Johannesburg, 2011
Photograph: Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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Daniel Richards, Milnerton, 2013
Photograph: Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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Daniela Beukman, Milnerton, 2013
Photograph: Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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In the home of Meshack Molatudi, Robinson Lake, Harmony Mine, Randfontein, 2012
Photograph: Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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Thoba Calvin and Tshepo Cameron Sithole - Modisane, Pretoria, 2013
Photograph: Pieter Hugo/Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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Meriam ‘Mary’ Tlali, who spent her entire adult life working as a maid for my grandmother, Kroonstad, 2011
Photograph: Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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Rina Veldsman, Monte Rosa Old Age Home, Cape Town, 2013
Photograph: Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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The view from ex-president Kaiser Matanzima’s bedroom in the now defunct bantustan of Transkei, Mthatha, 2008
Photograph: Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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Samuel Nkosomzi, Cape Town, 2007
Photograph: Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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Shaun Oliver, Cape Town, 2011
Photograph: Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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Louis Matanisa, Cape Town, 2013
Photograph: Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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Green Point Common, Cape Town, 2013
Photograph: Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
