The Hyena & Other Men (Third printing)

Pieter Hugo
The Hyena & Other Men (Third printing)

Photographs: Pieter Hugo

Text: Pieter Hugo and Adetokunbo Abiola

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

80 pages

Pictures: 33

Year: 2008

Comments: Hardcover with a dusk jacket, 29.1 x 24.8 cm, first edt, third printing (first printing was in 2007). Color photographs printed on acid-free paper, in very good condition with some light signs of wear in the upper edge of the dusk jacket. RARE!

Many myths surround the Hyena Men who haunt the peripheries of Nigeria's cities. Accompanied by hyenas, rock pythons and baboons, these men earn a living by performing before crowds and selling traditional medicines. Pieter Hugo's extraordinary portraits of their liminal existence reveal an uncanny world of complex, codependent relationships, where familiar distinctions between dominance and submission, wildness and domesticity, tradition and modernity are constantly subverted.