本书对**摄影师皮尔特•雨果（Pieter Hugo）及其令人着迷的作品进行了全面概述，收录了他多产职业生涯中每个重要系列的图像。皮尔特•雨果的影像令人印象深刻且难忘。从他的表现边缘化人物的人像照片系列“向旁看”开始，雨果一直努力以同情和无偏见的态度描绘非洲大陆。无论是面对卢旺达大屠杀的后果，还是记录加纳的电子垃圾场，还是在充满活力的尼日利亚电影业——诺莱坞拍摄，雨果都用崇敬和敬畏的态度对待他的拍摄对象。本书包括他最近在美国和中国拍摄的系列作品，并提供了雨果彩色和黑白作品的惊人复制品，并附有这位摄影师的个人评论。本书汇集了十多年引起好评的作品，让读者欣赏彼得•雨果的非凡作品集。

Pieter Hugo's images are unflinching and unforgettable. Beginning with "Looking Aside," his series of portraits of marginalized people, Hugo has striven to capture the African continent with empathy and impartiality. Whether confronting the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda, documenting electrical waste dumps in Ghana, or photographing in Nigeria's dynamic film industry, Nollywood, Hugo treats his subjects with reverence and awe. Including examples of his most recent series taken in the U.S. and China, this book offers stunning reproductions of Hugo's work in color and black-and-white, accompanied by the photographer's personal commentary. Bringing together more than a decade of work that has elicited fulsome praise, this volume lets readers appreciate Pieter Hugo's extraordinary oeuvre.