PERMANENT ERROR

110pp., 4to., colour illus., hardback, Munich, 2011

Pieter Hugo documents a garbage dump in Ghana that has become the repository for discarded computers from around the world.

Photographic artist Pieter Hugo was born 1976 in Johannesburg and lives in Cape Town. Hugo received the Discovery Award at the Rencontres d'Arles Festival, and the KLM Paul Huf Award in 2008, as well as the Seydou Keita Award at the Rencontres de Bamako African Photography Biennial in 2011, and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2012. In 2015, he was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet and was chosen as the ‘In Focus’ artist for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London. His books include Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Flat Noodle Soup Talk, Kin, This Must Be the Place and There's a Place In Hell For Me and My Friends.