Pieter Hugo - ULTIMATE Evening & Photographs Day Sales London Thursday, May 17, 2018 | Phillips

ULTIMATE Evening & Photographs Day Sales

London Auction 18 May 2018

  • Provenance

    Yossi Milo Gallery, New York

  • Literature

    P. Hugo, Permanent Error, Munich: Prestel, 2011, p. 67

  • 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

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Pieter Hugo

Aissah Salifu, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, Ghana from Permanent Error

2010
Chromogenic print, flush-mounted.
Image: 81.6 x 81.6 cm (32 1/8 x 32 1/8 in.)
Frame: 104 x 104 cm (40 7/8 x 40 7/8 in.)
Signed in ink, titled, dated and numbered 7/10 on an artist label accompanying the work.

Estimate
£8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for £13,750

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ULTIMATE Evening & Photographs Day Sales

London Auction 18 May 2018