Art: E-Waste

Renowned South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s latest work Permanent Error features a haunting documentary of an e-waste(land) in Ghana.
In the words of his gallery, Michael Stevenson: “For the past year Hugo has been photographing the people and landscape of an expansive dump of obsolete technology in Ghana. The area, on the outskirts of a slum known as Agbogbloshie, is referred to by local inhabitants as Sodom and Gomorrah, a vivid acknowledgment of the profound inhumanity of the place. When Hugo asked the inhabitants what they called the pit where the burning takes place, they repeatedly responded: ‘For this place, we have no name’.

Their response is a reminder of the alien circumstances that are imposed on marginal communities of the world by the West’s obsession with consumption and obsolesce. This wasteland, where people and cattle live on mountains of motherboards, monitors and discarded hard drives, is far removed from the benefits accorded by the unrelenting advances of technology.”

Permanent Error by Pieter Hugo

Permanent Error by Pieter Hugo

Permanent Error by Pieter Hugo

Permanent Error by Pieter Hugo