For Paris Photo 2016 Stevenson will focus on Pieter Hugo’s new major body of work, 1994.
In 1994 South Africa, had its first democratic election after 46 years of Apartheid. The year is also significant in Rwanda’s history: in 1994 the Genocide left close to a million people dead. Hugo explores the narratives in these two African countries through a series of portraits of children born after 1994, who live in the aftermath of the revolutionary environment.
Pieter Hugo was born in 1976 in Johannesburg, South Africa; he lives and works Cape Town, South Africa.