A series of close-up portraits of the artist and his friends, all those who call South Africa home. Hugo achieves this haunting result through a digital black-and-white conversion process, once again manipulating contrasts through color channels. He emphasizes the pigment, melanin, of his models so that they appear deeply marked by blemishes and sun damage. The result is the antithesis of those images that purport to represent the canons of beauty in popular culture. It is the artist's way of exposing the contradictions of racial distinctions based on skin color.