The Hyena Men of Nigeria by Pieter Hugo

I'm back home and want to post a bunch of NYC pics before getting on to a ton of work here: making a notebook of all the cards and notes from my trip; sending out promised books; garden and maintenance work; and, most exciting of all, getting back to final layout of the tiny homes book -- especially after the great reaction I got to it all last week.

I saw a book on these guys at the MOMA bookstore just as they were closing Monday night. On his website, the photographer Pieter Hugo writes of his first discovery of these people in Lagos, Nigeria:
"In Abuja we found them living on the periphery of the city in a shantytown - a group of men, a little girl, three hyenas, four monkeys and a few rock pythons. It turned out that they were a group of itinerant minstrels, performers who used the animals to entertain crowds and sell traditional medicines. The animal handlers were all related to each other and were practising a tradition passed down from generation to generation. I spent eight days travelling with them."

The only books I can find online are $3-400, signed by the author. I'm going to call MOMA tomorrow to see if maybe this was a normal-priced version, and if so, order one.