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On the face of it: South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s pictures Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 2015 (Pieter Hugo)

Pieter Hugo’s tragic beauty pushes the button of mortality

The photographer’s ambitious new exhibition What the Light Falls On is a free-ranging meditation on life

Unions are claiming Friday’s court ruling on labour broking as spelling the end of the practice but other labour specialists disagree. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

Bopape rattles biennale cage

The South African artist’s new film about a rape challenges the curators and concepts of art

A family affair: Pieter Hugo with his daughter Sophia in Cape Town.

Pieter Hugo: Melancholy etched in the flesh

Photographer Pieter Hugo’s latest exhibition is a? "jolting meditation" on family, kinship and decaying nationhood.

Land art: Pieter Hugo’s work at The Loom of the Land exhibition.

Documents of fictionalisation

The Loom of the Land shows South Africa through the eyes of more than 20 artists, but the exhibition’s politeness may leave art lovers unsatisfied.

Atle Tekane

Hugo lays bare society’s scars

Pieter Hugo’s latest work, the Pirelli-commissioned At Home series of nude portraits of South Africans at home is all imperfect humanity.

Paris

Paris, passion and curiosity

African photographers were well represented at the showcase in Paris due to the drive of one collector.Natalie Dixon

Video

Pieter Hugo wins Young Director Award at Cannes

South African photographers Pieter Hugo and Michael Cleary have won an award for their music video for Spoek Mathambo’s <i>Control</i>.

Blood and guts in Nollywood

Federica Angelucci, curator of photography at the Michael Stevenson Gallery, introduces Pieter Hugo’s images of the Nigerian film industry.

Looking in from the outside

Pieter Hugo’s new exhibition explores the politics of economic division, writes Monique Pelser.