Guy Tillim

NEWS: Guy Tillim's Avenue Patrice Lumumba was published in 2008 by Prestel. The exhibition 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. A selection from the series is included on the group exhibition Welt - Bilder 3 at Helmhaus Zürich (13 November - 17 January).

LATEST 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. 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. He held solo exhibitions at Haus für Kunst, Altdorf, and Haunch of Venison, Zurich, in 2008. Recent group exhibitions include Great Expectations: Contemporary photography looks at today's Bitter Years at Casino Luxembourg - Forum of Contemporary Art, Luxembourg (2009); The Face of Our Time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009); Peripheral Vision and Collective Body at the Museion, Bolzano, Italy (2008); Home Lands - Land Marks at Haunch of Venison, London (2008); 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

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