If you’re wondering what took us so long to say something about South African rapper Spoek Mathambo’s new music video — for his cover of Joy Division’s “She’s Lost Control” [corrected], well, we can’t make up our mind about it. The video, above, got a lot of attention when it first came out in late […]
Pieter Hugo’s Nollywood
September 24, 2010 By 2 Comments
Neelika Jayawardane I first saw Pieter Hugo’s ““Nollywood” at the opening party for his exhibit at Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa, in January 2008. I went with a group of my students from the State University of New York; I suppose I wanted to terrorize them with the snobbery that is intrinsic […]
SuperFans
June 9, 2010 By 1 Comment
We’ve profiled South African photographer Pieter Hugo before (here and here) and he is now back with an exhibition running until July 3 at Colette in Paris. Featured are his 2005 portraits of supporters of Johannesburg football club, the Orlando Pirates, who “in their fanatical garb, are provocative images of modes of masculinity and of […]
Is this Nollywood?
April 8, 2010 By 8 Comments
With few exceptions, I usually celebrate South African photographers. Among them is Pieter Hugo, whose most recent work, “Nollywood”– a series of portraits recreating what for Hugo represents “archetypical characters” from the southern Nigerian film industry–opens tonight (from 6:00 to 8:00 pm) at Yossi Milo Gallery in Manhattan (525 West 25th Street). Anyway, not everyone […]
Pieter Hugo’s Nollywood
January 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
You can see most the photographs from Hugo’s “Nollywood” project (now a book) on his website, along with an introduction by Federica Angelucci and an essay, “Nollywood Confidential” by Cape Town-based Stacy Hardy. The actual book also includes a short story by novelist Chris Abani (“Omar Shariff Comes To Nollywood. A Storyboard In 10 Frames”) […]
