This phenomenal shot is an image from South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s famous series about West Africa’s Hyena Men.
This digital chromogenic print, 60 x 60,” is on offer from a private collector at Heffel Vancouver here.
The full series focused on itinerant men who haunt the peripheries of Nigeria’s cities. Accompanied by hyenas, rock pythons and baboons, they earn a living by performing before crowds and selling traditional medicines. Hugo’s extraordinary portraits of their liminal existence reveal an uncanny world.
Hugo and Adetokunbo Abiola produced a book about the lifestyle, called The Hyena & Other Men.
See all the images in the series on Pieter Hugo’s website, here.
A fascinating first-person article in The Guardian, here.
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Amazing photos. I did not think hyenas were that big.
Interesting point, I hadn’t thought about their size.