Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Pieter Hugo

About the photo serie The Hyena & Other Men taken in Nigeria by South African photographer Pieter Hugo:

"In Abuja we found them living on the periphery of the city in a shantytown - a group of men, a little girl, three hyenas, four monkeys and a few rock pythons. It turned out that they were a group of itinerant minstrels, performers who used the animals to entertain crowds and sell traditional medicines. The animal handlers were all related to each other and were practising a tradition passed down from generation to generation. I spent eight days travelling with them"

from

www.pieterhugo.com


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