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The sequencing moves with a quiet tension, allowing each portrait to assert its weight and then recede into a larger meditation on kinship, otherness, and the porous boundaries of self and society. 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Produced in Nigeria in collaboration with local actors and communities, Hugo’s staged portraits re-enact the hallucinatory iconography of Nollywood cinema: ritual killings, zombie brides, corrupt officials, spirits caught mid-exorcism. The result is an unsettling taxonomy of visual archetypes, both hyper-stylised and deeply local.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"721\" data-end=\"1281\"\u003eThis collector’s edition, limited to 150 copies, includes a signed and numbered C-print titled \u003cem data-start=\"816\" data-end=\"860\"\u003eSong Iyke with Ebube, Thank God and Mpompo\u003c\/em\u003e, Enugu, Nigeria, 2008. The photograph is signature Hugo—raw light, scorched landscape, and a cast of boys embodying myth and menace with the casual confidence of children raised among ghosts. The book itself is bound in black faux leather with gilt titling, inset with an image of a man in a suit standing over a freshly slaughtered cow, drenched in red. 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His subjects include the blind, the aged, people with albinism, and members of his own family, all photographed with a directness that renders pity impossible and attention urgent. The title is literal and metaphorical: to “look aside” is both an act of evasion and a political stance. Hugo insists we do neither.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"664\" data-end=\"1266\"\u003eThe cover, a ghost-pale child with albinism staring squarely at the viewer, acts as both gatekeeper and thesis. There is no refuge in abstraction here; the portraits are hyper-specific, high-resolution, and full of visual tension. Published by Punctum Editions in 2006 and designed by Damien Poulain, this early book already signals Hugo’s signature method: clinical lighting, ethical discomfort, and a forensic attention to surface. 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