Pieter Hugo

Pieter Hugo was born in South Africa in 1976 and currently lives and works near Cape Town. His work is held in the permanent collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, MoMA NY, SFMOMA, and elsewhere.

https://pieterhugo.com/

08 Aug 2011

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On the outskirts of a Ghana slum, young people work in toxic conditions to extract metal from melted-down computers—technology that we've discarded, and shipped elsewhere for the dirty work of recycling.