Michael Stevenson - Guy Tillim

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Guy Tillim

NEWS: Tillim has solo exhibitions at Haus für Kunst in Altdorf, Switzerland (until 18 May) and Haunch of Venison, Zurich (17 April - 24 May). Current and upcoming group shows include Biennale Cuvée at OK Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria (28 February - 27 April); Cities in Crisis: Photographs of the SA urban landscape at the FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg (10 April - 9 May); the Hereford Photography Festival - Contemporary Photography from South Africa - Part 2 (17 May - 14 June); and Home Lands - Land Marks at Haunch of Venison, London (29 May - 5 July).

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

Avenue Patrice Lumumba (10 July - 23 August 2008)

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

Click here to read an interview with Tillim by Peter Machen (published in the Natal Witness).

BIOGRAPHY
Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962. He started photographing professionally in 1986 and joined Afrapix, a collective of South African photographers with whom he worked closely 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. Recent group exhibitions include Documenta 12 (2007); the São Paulo Bienal (2006); SLUM: Art and life in the here and now of the civil age at the Neue Galerie in Graz; Photography, Video, Mixed Media III at the DaimlerChrysler Gallery in Berlin; and the travelling exhibition Africa Remix (2004-2007). His work is included in Vitamin Ph (Phaidon, 2006). Full CV