PH x HBA - special edition

Pieter Hugo in collaboration with fashion label Hood by Air. 2016. First edition, first printing. Special edition with signed and numbered digital C-print (37/50) Limited edition of 50 copies. Softcover with jacket (as issued) in a black box. Print: 250 x 330 mm. Book: 290 x 375 mm. 56 pages. Designed by Joseph Burrin. Very good condition!

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In early 2016, Pieter Hugo travelled to Jamaica to shoot a series of portraits of a street cast wearing seminal pieces of the HBA archive. The cast included male porn stars and Gully Queens, a vilified gay community in Kingston who live in a gully (or drain) beneath the city.

The book includes an in-conversation essay between Hugo and Carlos Nazario, collaborator on the project and a long time collaborator and friend of Hood by Air’s founder Shayne Oliver. They discuss the challenges they faced photographing such sexually ambiguous characters in a country where homosexuality is still illegal. The conversation is informative and personal and reveals something of the tension they felt during the process of making this fascinating body of work.