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Pieter Hugo
Al Hasan Abukari, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, Ghana from Permanent Error
- Estimate
- £10,000 - 15,000
£12,500
Lot Details
Chromogenic print, flush-mounted.
2009
Image: 82 x 82 cm (32 1/4 x 32 1/4 in.)
Frame: 101 x 101 cm (39 3/4 x 39 3/4 in.)
Frame: 101 x 101 cm (39 3/4 x 39 3/4 in.)
Signed in ink, printed title, date and number 2/10 on a Certificate of Authenticity accompanying the work.
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Catalogue Essay
‘It is a very strange, surreal place, where time seems suspended.’
Pieter Hugo
Ghana’s Agbogbloshie dump, a vast wasteland of discarded electronics, is the setting of Pieter Hugo’s Permanent Error series, which focuses on the local people who sort through and burn down the e-waste, extracting small bits of metal for resale amidst the toxic air. Using a medium-format camera, Hugo captured these striking images, giving his powerful figures and the noxious landscape equal presence within the frame.
Pieter Hugo
Ghana’s Agbogbloshie dump, a vast wasteland of discarded electronics, is the setting of Pieter Hugo’s Permanent Error series, which focuses on the local people who sort through and burn down the e-waste, extracting small bits of metal for resale amidst the toxic air. Using a medium-format camera, Hugo captured these striking images, giving his powerful figures and the noxious landscape equal presence within the frame.
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