Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

- Pieter Hugo

I grew up in a middle to upper-class house with fairly liberal sentiments, but to me it was always very obvious that the society I grew up in was not…

- Pieter Hugo

A lot of my inspiration is reactionary to images I see in the media.

- Pieter Hugo

I have a taste for the macabre. I really am not drawn to imagery that is pretty, things that are just pretty. I’m drawn to things that challenge you,…

- Pieter Hugo

It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior - which means …

- Pieter Hugo

I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.

- Pieter Hugo