Pieter Hugo has won the Discovery Award at this year's Rencontres d'Arles festival in the south of France.He collects EUR25,000 for his exhibition of the 'Hyena Men' of Nigeria and wild honey collectors in Ghana, which is showing alongside 14 other 'discoveries' at the festival until 14 September. He was selected by Elisabeth Biondi, who is the visuals editor at The New Yorker.
The hyena men come from one extended family and live on the outskirts of Nigerian society, moving from city to city and performing acts with hyenas, monkeys and snakes to entertain their audience and sell traditional medicines. 'It's bizarre,' Hugo told BJP earlier this year (BJP, 14 May). 'The animals become semi-domesticated, dependent on the men.'
In the second series, the honey collectors are shown dressed in cassava branches and plastic, used to protect them from stings as they smoke out forest bees.
Hugo was named this year's winner at one of the nightly projections during at the festival.
in http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=805887The hyena men come from one extended family and live on the outskirts of Nigerian society, moving from city to city and performing acts with hyenas, monkeys and snakes to entertain their audience and sell traditional medicines. 'It's bizarre,' Hugo told BJP earlier this year (BJP, 14 May). 'The animals become semi-domesticated, dependent on the men.'
In the second series, the honey collectors are shown dressed in cassava branches and plastic, used to protect them from stings as they smoke out forest bees.
Hugo was named this year's winner at one of the nightly projections during at the festival.
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