Guy Tillim

News

In 2012 Guy Tillim's Second Nature showed at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography in Amsterdam and on La Triennale 2012 - Intense Proximity in Paris; the series travels to the Centre Photographique d'Ile-de-France, Paris, in September 2013. Avenue Patrice Lumumba shows at CentroCentro, Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid (18 April to 13 October). Tillim is included on The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, travelling to the Haus der Kunst, Munich (15 February - 26 May); and Appropriated Landscapes at the Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm/Burlafingen, Germany (until May 2013).

Exhibitions / Works

• Libreville  (Johannesburg, 14 March - 19 April 2013)
• Second Nature II: São Paulo  (Cape Town, 29 February - 30 March 2012)
• Second Nature I: French Polynesia  (Cape Town, 27 July - 3 September 2011)
• Roma, città di mezzo  (2009)
• Avenue Patrice Lumumba  (Cape Town, 10 July - 23 August 2008)
• Recent photographs on Summer 2007/8  (Cape Town, 28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)
• Congo Democratic  (2006)
• Petros Village, Malawi, 2006  (Cape Town, 2 May - 3 June 2006)
• Jo'burg series  (2004)
• Leopold and Mobutu  (Cape Town, 12 May - 19 June 2004)
• Soldiers  (Cape Town, 17 June - 19 July 2003)
• Kunhinga Portraits  (Cape Town, 17 June - 19 July 2003)
• Departure  (Cape Town, 17 June - 19 July 2003)

Publications

• Second Nature (2012)
  
• Roma, città di mezzo (2009)
  
• Avenue Patrice Lumumba (2008)
  
• Congo Democratic (2006)
  
• Petros Village (2006)
  
• Jo'burg (2005)
  
• Leopold and Mobutu (2004)
  
• Kunhinga Portraits (2003)
  
• Departure (2003)

Articles, interviews, reviews

• Leora Maltz-Leca on Avenue Patrice Lumumba (ArteEast Quarterly, 1 September 2011)
  
• Chad Rossouw reviews Second Nature (Mail & Guardian, 29 July 2011)
  
• Richard Poplak on Avenue Patrice Lumumba in Toronto (The Daily Maverick, 18 May 2011)
  
• Interview with Tillim by Corin Hirsch (a.magazine, July 2008)
  
• Interview with Tillim by Peter Machen (Natal Witness, May 2005)

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 series Avenue Patrice Lumumba has shown at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris; Museu Serralves in Porto; the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; FOAM_Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam; and Extracity, Antwerp, in 2009; at Kunsthalle Oldenburg, Germany, in 2010, and at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago in 2011, among other venues. His work was included on Documenta 12 in 2007 and the São Paulo Bienal in 2006.
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