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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.)
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.
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‘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