Guy Tillim
Gardner Photography Fellow, 2007
Guy Tillim is an award-winning documentary still photographer from South Africa. Tillim began his professional career in 1986 and worked as a freelance photojournalist for the local and foreign media, including Reuters and Agence France-Presse. He has exhibited in more than a dozen countries and published in numerous volumes and journals; his work has focused on documenting social conflict and inequality in the countries of Africa. From teenage soldiers in Rwanda to civil war in Congo to the dislocation of entire populations in Angola, Tillim returns to lands whose violence he once covered as a journalist to recover the shadows that violence produced in the people and lands.
In the words of arts curator Michket Krifa, “Guy Tillim…combines a profound sense of historic documentation of African countries ravaged by conflicts and tragedies of all kinds and a very stringent formal aesthetic devoid of all mannerism.”
Tillim has received many awards for his work including the Prix SCAM (Société civile des auteurs multimédia) Roger Pic in 2002, the Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award (Japan) in 2003, the 2004 DaimlerChrysler Arts Award for South African photography, and the 2005 Leica Oskar Barnack Award.
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Chemistry and Geography building, University of Lubumbashi, DR Congo, 2007 by Guy Tillim |
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Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique, 2008 by Guy Tillim |
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Maputo, Mozambique, 2007 by Guy Tillim
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National Museum grounds, Avenue 24 de Julho, Maputo, Mozambique 2007 by Guy Tillim
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Avenue Patrice Lumumba: Photographs by Guy Tillim.
Avenue Patrice Lumumba: Photographs by Guy Tillim
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