Nigerian Badasses by Pieter Hugo
The overwhelmingly dreadtastic bad-assitude of these Nigerians walking their hyenas and baboons around almost made my testicles explode from testosterone envy. Thank you, Pieter.
‘Last year I saw a picture on a website that was taken from a car window in Nigeria,” says Pieter Hugo. “It showed a man with a hyena on the streets of Lagos.”Pieter's official website
Seated on a restaurant balcony overlooking Cape Town’s city bowl, the tall, athletic photographer says it was this crude photograph that motivated him to visit Nigeria. “The caption said he was a debt collector,” he continues, a glass of wine and salad placed in front of him. “The photograph really intrigued me.”
Through a local researcher Hugo was introduced to Adetokunbo Abiola, a Nigerian journalist who emailed him to say he knew of the men (there were more than one) in the picture. A few weeks later Hugo nervously exited Lagos airport on his first visit to the country." More on the making of the photos...
Pieter's gallery's site, with more information on the background and methods of the hyena-handlers
Showstudio's gallery, with beautiful higher-res versions of the images
Probably the car window snapshot that inspired Pieter to track down these crazy Nigerians in the first place.
4 Comments:
wow, these images ae amazing, then again how can you not feel like a badass with a Hyena?
Boingboinged! http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/27/pieter_hugos_photos_.html
... But I agree. Talk about a feeling of 'badassitude'... 'Sic'em, Killer!'
I wanna hyena. When you hear about a tragic death of a fourteen year old girl in Nigeria, eaten by rabid hyenas, you'll know who it was!
stupid is as stupid does
the entire series of images was printed in EXIT magazine and when i saw them i could not take my eyes off of them. They are extraordinary in substance, revealing a life and culture in detail that could have gone out of extinction without every being exposed.
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