PIETER HUGO Californian Wildflowers

In 2014 and 2015, Pieter Hugo met the subjects of his photographs in San Francisco’s Tenderloin and Los Angeles’s Skid Row districts. The high-key lighting of the relentless California sun characterises these outdoor portraits made in the city streets. Bold colours and chiaroscuro form the language used by Hugo to complement the expansive gestures and curving forms of his subjects—wild and unrestrained.   Too frequently overlooked, Hugo brings our attention to these wildflowers blooming from the uncommon Californian land and its elusive promise of prosperity. Uninhibited and lawless, we bear witness to a truth that only they are capable of transmitting.  … Read more

In 2014 and 2015, Pieter Hugo met the subjects of his photographs in San Francisco’s Tenderloin and Los Angeles’s Skid Row districts. The high-key lighting of the relentless California sun characterises these outdoor portraits made in the city streets. Bold colours and chiaroscuro form the language used by Hugo to complement the expansive gestures and curving forms of his subjects—wild and unrestrained.

 

Too frequently overlooked, Hugo brings our attention to these wildflowers blooming from the uncommon Californian land and its elusive promise of prosperity. Uninhibited and lawless, we bear witness to a truth that only they are capable of transmitting.

 

124 pages, 25.4 x 36.8 cm, softcover, TBW Books (Oakland).