Children that were born after 1994. Africa Is a Country
How It All Started
For two decades since 1994, Hugo had traveled to Rwanda, recording the aftermath of the genocide, but it wasn’t until 2014 that he began to obtain images that could help him tell stories of a different generation.
The award-winning photographer recalls how the idea for a new narrative in images struck him in a most unexpected way:
“The shoots invariably happened at school buildings. There were always kids hanging around outside the building, curious and fascinated by what we were doing. I made one or two portraits of the kids, mainly to get them to stop hassling me,” Hugo told the Guardian.
After a careful analysis of the images, he realized they were more interesting than the ones he had collected on assignment. To him, the children portraits are the best way to understand that remarkable period in African history.
Hugo decided to keep his young subjects anonymous because to him, they symbolize a more profound concept that just the individual.
