“All you need for a good action movie, is a car crash, a coffin and a vampire or ghost.” These are the words of a Nigerian film critic in the introduction text of Pieter Hugo’s new photographic album “Nollywood”, which has been published by Prestel. The photographs of zombies, criminals, victims, neandertals, femme fatales and wizards, even of Jesus Christ, are starting its round of museums and galleries around the world. It is a rather unknown fact that Nollywood is the third largest film industry in the world after Hollywood and Bollywood. In our current issue you can read the whole story of “Nollywood”.
Nollywood
“All you need for a good action movie, is a car crash, a coffin and a vampire or ghost.” These are the words of a Nigerian film critic in the introduction text of Pieter Hugo’s new photographic album “Nollywood”, which has been published by Prestel. The photographs of zombies, criminals, victims, neandertals, femme fatales and wizards, even of Jesus Christ, are starting its round of museums and galleries around the world. It is a rather unknown fact that Nollywood is the third largest film industry in the world after Hollywood and Bollywood. In our current issue you can read the whole story of “Nollywood”.