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Pieter Hugo took most of these photographs of children and young people in villages around Rwanda and South Africa. "There's a thin line between nature being seen as idyllic and as a place where terrible things happen – permeated by genocide, a constantly contested space. Seen as a metaphor, it's as if the further you leave the city and its systems of control, the more primal things become. At times the children appear conservative, existing in an orderly world; at other times there's something feral about them, as in Lord of the Flies, a place devoid of rules. This is most noticeable in the Rwanda images where clothes donated from Europe, with particular cultural significations, are transposed into a completely different context."

First edition, signed in black ink on title-page; (289 x 240 mm, 11½ x 9½ in); colour photographs, text by Ashraf Jamal; light grey endpapers, cream paper-covered boards with titles stamped in brown on spine and upper side, photographic reproduction mounted on upper side, publisher's iridescent pink dust-jacket, Stevenson Gallery compliments slip laid in, fine; 92pp.