Guy Tillim

NEWS: Guy Tillim's Avenue Patrice Lumumba travelled to the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris; Museu Serralves in Porto; Galleria Extraspazio in Rome; the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; FOAM_Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam; and Extracity, Antwerp, in 2009. In 2010 the series has shown at Kuckei + Kuckei in Berlin, and as part of a group exhibition at Galerie van der Mieden, Antwerp; it will show at Kunsthalle Oldenburg, Germany, from 21 October to 28 November, and at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago from 10 January to 5 March 2011. Jo'burg shows at the Centre du Patrimoine Arménien in Valence, France, from 11 June to 19 September. Group shows include Africa: Objects and Subjects at Palacio de Revillagigedo in Gijon, Spain (21 June - 30 August), travelling to Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain (5 October - 20 December).

RECENT WORK

• Roma, città di mezzo  at FotoGrafia, Rome (29 May - 2 August 2009)

RECENT EXHIBITION

• Avenue Patrice Lumumba  (10 July - 23 August 2008)

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

• Facina's house and other photographs on Summer 2007/8  (28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)
• Mai Mai militia in training near Beni, 2002 on South African Art Now  (29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
• Congo Democratic  (2006)
• Petros Village, Malawi, 2006  (2 May - 3 June 2006)
• Residents of Goma salute Laurent Kabila ...  (1997; 2005 colour print)
• Jo'burg series  (2004)
• Leopold and Mobutu  (12 May - 19 June 2004)
• Soldiers  (17 June - 19 July 2003) including new images Portraits I - XVI
• Kunhinga portraits  (17 June - 19 July 2003) including new images #13-16
• Departure  (17 June - 19 July 2003)

PUBLICATIONS

• Avenue Patrice Lumumba (2008)
  
• Congo Democratic (2006)
  
• Petros Village (2006)
  
• Jo'burg (2005)
  
• Leopold and Mobutu (2004)
  
• Guy Tillim (DaimlerChrysler catalogue) (2004)
  
• Kunhinga Portraits (2003)
  
• Departure (2003)

BIOGRAPHY
Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962 and lives in Cape Town. He started photographing professionally in 1986, working with the Afrapix collective until 1990. His work as a freelance photographer in South Africa for the local and foreign media included positions with Reuters between 1986 and 1988, and Agence France Presse in 1993 and 1994. Tillim has received many awards for his work including the Prix SCAM (Societe Civile des Auteurs Multimedia) Roger Pic in 2002, the Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award (Japan) in 2003, the 2004 DaimlerChrysler Award for South African photography, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 2005 and the first Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University in 2006. His work was included on Documenta 12 in 2007 and the São Paulo Bienal in 2006. He is included in the photographic survey Vitamin Ph (Phaidon, 2006). Full CV

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