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Pieter Hugo's images are breathtakingly poignant. --Amateur Photographer
Permanent Error paints a dark picture of the conditions imposed on this slum community, and the flip side of our rapid technological progress --British Journal of Photography, June 2011
Permanent Error is a stunning achievement; South African photographer Pieter Hugo exposes in shocking detail consumerism's shameful and toxic wastelnad, but at the same time brings out the dignity and beauty of the people condemned to spend their days on it. --New Internationalist May 2011
This thought-provoking book adds to the canon that illustrates the gap between the wasteful, consumerist western world and the poor of the third world who are forced to eke a living picking through our rubbish. --What Digital Camera? September 2011
The book is a monument to our obsession with consumption and obsolescence, and the normally unseen consequences. Hugo found great recognition for his recent book The Hyena and Other Men and has continued to make arresting work since. --The Photographer January 2012
This thought-provoking book adds to the canon that illustrates the gap between the wasteful, consumerist western world and the poor of the third world who are forced to eke a living picking through our rubbish. --What Digital Camera? September 2011
Four artists have been shortlisted for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. Pieter Hugo is nominated for his publication Permanent Error, published by Prestel. Permanent Error centres on a vast dumping ground for technological waste on the outskirts of Ghana's capital city. --Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2012, March 2012
This thought-provoking book adds to the canon that illustrates the gap between the wasteful, consumerist western world and the poor of the third world who are forced to eke a living picking through our rubbish. --What Digital Camera? September 2011
Permanent Error paints a dark picture of the conditions imposed on this slum community, and the flip side of our rapid technological progress --British Journal of Photography, June 2011
Permanent Error is a stunning achievement; South African photographer Pieter Hugo exposes in shocking detail consumerism's shameful and toxic wastelnad, but at the same time brings out the dignity and beauty of the people condemned to spend their days on it. --New Internationalist May 2011
This thought-provoking book adds to the canon that illustrates the gap between the wasteful, consumerist western world and the poor of the third world who are forced to eke a living picking through our rubbish. --What Digital Camera? September 2011
The book is a monument to our obsession with consumption and obsolescence, and the normally unseen consequences. Hugo found great recognition for his recent book The Hyena and Other Men and has continued to make arresting work since. --The Photographer January 2012
This thought-provoking book adds to the canon that illustrates the gap between the wasteful, consumerist western world and the poor of the third world who are forced to eke a living picking through our rubbish. --What Digital Camera? September 2011
Four artists have been shortlisted for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. Pieter Hugo is nominated for his publication Permanent Error, published by Prestel. Permanent Error centres on a vast dumping ground for technological waste on the outskirts of Ghana's capital city. --Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2012, March 2012
This thought-provoking book adds to the canon that illustrates the gap between the wasteful, consumerist western world and the poor of the third world who are forced to eke a living picking through our rubbish. --What Digital Camera? September 2011
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In his previous well-received volumes of photographs, Hugo offers unflinching yet striking portraits of humans, animals, societies, and landscapes that shock and disturb, but also demand our attention. In Permanent Error, he documents a rubbish dump in Ghana that has become the repository for discarded computers from around the world. These haunting images document the true cost of a misguided policy - the shipping of millions of tons of obsolete computers to developing countries. The computers are burned to extract valuable metals, effectively turning the site into a toxic wasteland that contaminates air, soil, and groundwater for miles around. These amazing portraits tell a story of a marginal community overwhelmed by poverty, but where human strength and resilience shine through the inhuman conditions Hugo lays bare.
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Format:Hardcover
I was living in Accra when this book was being set up and I know the area. So this book strikes a personal note. However from a philosophical and photographic point of view this book underlines the unacceptable tendancy for the West to dump on emerging countries as merchandise anything we longer require/want - the young Ghanaians have to buy the electronics to cut them up and try and sell the 'heavy' metal to eke out a living.
The comments are spot on and corroborate the Greenpeace video of 2009/2010 and Ghana is now the lead dumping ground for electronic waste(cf le Monde 16th March).
As for the photos the soft tones add an ironic poignancy to the pictures which might well not have had the same impact if the colours had been over saturated and the images had had high contrast.
The comments are spot on and corroborate the Greenpeace video of 2009/2010 and Ghana is now the lead dumping ground for electronic waste(cf le Monde 16th March).
As for the photos the soft tones add an ironic poignancy to the pictures which might well not have had the same impact if the colours had been over saturated and the images had had high contrast.
Format:Hardcover
Beautiful book, don't really know to add except that I am very happy I bought it. The photographs are amazing, a fantastic discovery!
Format:Hardcover
I'd say this book and the project it encompasses is deserved of a solid 4/5 stars, I gave it 5 to counteract the fool below. The images as always are striking and centrally composed - typical of his work. There is also some very interesting material to read.
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