Award-winning photographer Pieter Hugo’s modern project captures the young faces born in the aftermath of genocide and apartheidIn the spring of 1994,a young Pieter Hugo was sitting at his parent’s house in Johannesburg watching TV as news of the Rwandan genocide unfolded. He was transfixed, he says, and but the situation developing around him was just as historic. South Africa was just about to hold its first democratic elections,marking the close of decades of white minority rule under apartheid. “Overnight we went from a police state to a free state. The oppressive systems of control were gone and there was an anarchic period before the modern ones replaced them,” the award-winning photographer recalls. Related: Pieter Hugo: portraits of South Africa - in pictures Hugo sees the portraits as a collaborations with his young subjects Related: Pieter Hugo photographs the lingering legacy of the Rwanda genocide Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com