Portrait #16, South Africa

2016, printed 2017

Portrait #16, South Africa, 2016, printed 2017. Pieter Hugo (South African, b. 1976). Digital chromogenic print; overall: 120 x 160 cm (47 1/4 x 63 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 2017.67 © Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York Hugo’s series depicts Rwandan and South African children born after 1994, a year marked by Rwandan genocide and the end of apartheid in South Africa. Without direct experience of those horrors, can these children escape past hatreds and build a better world? The brothers' pose echoes an iconic photograph of a child killed during a 1976 uprising against apartheid.