Hugo (born 1976 in Johannesburg) is a talented photographer currently residing in Cape Town.
His impressive resume includes major solo exhibitions at prestigious museums such as Museu Colecação Berardo, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, and the Hague Museum of Photography, among others. He has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions at esteemed institutions like the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Barbican Art Gallery, and Tate Modern.
Hugo’s work is widely collected by both public and private institutions, including Centre Pompidou, Rijksmuseum, and the Museum of Modern Art. His pieces can be found in notable collections such as the V&A Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and J Paul Getty Museum.
Over the course of his career, Hugo has received several prestigious awards, including the Discovery Award at the Rencontres d’Arles Festival in 2008, the KLM Paul Huf Award, and the Seydou Keita Award. He was also a finalist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2012 and the Prix Pictet in 2015. Most recently, he was selected as the ‘In Focus’ artist for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
www.ftn-books.com has the Fotomuseum Den Haag invitation for his exhibition now available.
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