Pieter Hugo: Interview for The Guardian

I really like south african photographer Pieter Hugo's work, specially his last series The Hyena & Other Men that was published in a book by Prestel Publishing. The book was one of does fill cases of photobooks that disapere from the book stores...it's already in it's 3rd edition.

I found these very interesting article and interview about his work, by Sean O'Hagan at guardian.co.uk arts section:

"My abiding image of the photographer Pieter Hugo comes from the Arles Photography Festival which finished last week. It was around two in the morning and the hotel bar had just shut but Hugo was in full flow, holding forth - intense, animated, provocative - about the imminent death of photography.

'It's over, it's finished,' he declared, gesticulating with his beer bottle. 'If you really want to know about anything - a war, a place, a person - you go read a book, right? You don't look at a photograph. It's just a moment, a glimpse. It's just a bloody photograph'."

Read the article
and visit his website for more.