"Être Présent" - Arles 2021 (Semaine III)
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My work used to be incredibly confrontational: I wanted to point at things and say to society,
“Look, look!” I wanted people to feel uncomfortable and be aware of their hypocrisy.
(Pieter Hugo)
I’m interested in photography because it sits somewhere between document and art.
(Pieter Hugo)
lf it's not essential with what you are showing, leave it out of the picture.
(Pieter Hugo)
One of the things intrinsic to the medium of photography is that it’s inherently voyeuristic,
and that’s what gives the medium a lot of energy. But it also creates problems that you have
to solve.
(Pieter Hugo)
For me to work at all as a photographer, I have to be conscious always of the problems
acquired in what I do. I have to be conscious, if you like, of the impossibility of photography.
(Pieter Hugo)
It’s not that hard to learn how to shoot—the hardest thing is to find a voice.
(Pieter Hugo)
Are straight people only allowed to photograph straights, are lesbians only allowed
to photograph lesbians?
(Pieter Hugo)
I don’t think art has a responsibility to be pretty.
(Pieter Hugo)
[Photography’s] true seduction lies in its foot in reality. It still has the pretense of
being a quasi-document.
(Pieter Hugo)
I am looking because I am interested in looking. I want to look, and I want to look without
apology. And with the intensity that I want to look with, I want to be looked back at. And if
you can get that in a portrait or in a landscape, you have an energy.
(Pieter Hugo)
Photographs are like children, they grow, go about the world and no longer belong to you.
(Pieter Hugo)
In the process of working in any medium, at some stage, you become aware of its limitations.
For me it was realizing that photography could only describe the surface of things. It’s symbolic.
It can’t do much more than that.
(Pieter Hugo)
The picture takes 1/125th of a second. The photographer is always trying to compensate for
that brevity, to extend the process.
(Pieter Hugo)
I’m quite a light person if you meet me but I’m quite heavy in my work, and in the process
of making the picture you imbue that with a sense of gravity and urgency.
(Pieter Hugo)
Après cette longue, belle , mais parfois difficile exposition, allons prendre l'air dans
la cour de l’évêché où se tenait cette exposition de 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 we have to start making dishonest work,
which means it becomes didactic and propaganda in nature.
(Pieter Hugo)
Bonne visite et bonne semaine à vous
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