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Guy Tillim

January 01, 1970

Guy Tillim (born 1962) is a South African photographer known for his work focusing on troubled regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.[1][2] A member of the country's white minority, Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962.[3][1][2] He graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1983, and he also spent time at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg.[4][2][1] His photographs and projects have been exhibited internationally and form the basis of several of Tillim's published books.[5][6][7]

The website African Success has described him as one of South Africa's "foremost photographers", whilst the Daily Maverick site has referred to him as "arguably SA's finest photographer" after David Goldblatt.[3][8][9][10]

Early career edit

Tillim first became professionally involved in photography as a photojournalist in 1986.[11][8][3] Until 1990, he worked with the Afrapix collective, a group of South African documentary photographers providing a unique conduit of photography to world media during apartheid, alongside other prominent figures in South African photography, including David Goldblatt, Steve Hilton-Barber, and Omar Badsha.[12][13][11][8][3] During much of this time, he worked as a freelance photographer for both local and foreign media, including Reuters (1986 to 1988) and Agence France Press (1993 to 1994).[11][14][3]

His work during this period was hugely focused on the hostile political climate during Apartheid in South Africa.[15][4][12][16] The photojournalists of the era, many of whom also worked with the Afrapix collective, were photographing often violent scenes of riots, war, and poverty on the black citizens of South Africa.[12][4]

Post-Apartheid Work edit

 
Guy Tillim exhibition of Congo photographs

After the Afrapix collective dissolved in 1991 and apartheid was politically resolved in 1994, Tillim's work shifted to document the lasting effects of South Africa's almost 50 year-long war on its black citizens.[17][18][19] Many of his most significant bodies of work carry this theme, such as Johannesburg (May, 2005) and Jo'burg Downtown, which include photographs of scenes and dwellers of the city.[15][6] Of the latter, Johannesburg museum curator Okwui Enwezor said that "as a series, Jo'burg represents a practice of post-apartheid documentary photography that links contemporary South Africa to its own history."[6] In other work, such as Things as They Seem (2004), he focuses on the architecture of the city, saying in an interview that "these photos were taken in places I knew, places where I had worked and covered news events."[20] He stated that he "had always wanted to return and try to find it, try to describe it in some way."[20] These works and others stood out in the global discussion of South African political climate.[12][4][6][17][20][16]

In more recent years, Tillim's work has shifted from the themes of his career from the 80s to the early 2000s.[21] In 2014, he participated in a collaborative exhibit at the Museum für Moderne Kunst entitled The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists.[21] In contrast to his earlier work, it reexamines Dante Alighieri's poem through art.[21]

Publications edit

  • Jo'burg. Johannesburg: STE Publishers, 2001. ISBN 978-2350460147. Photographs taken in and around Johannesburg.
  • Departure. Cape Town and Johannesburg: Michael Stevenson Contemporary, 2003.
  • Kunhinga Portraits. Cape Town and Johannesburg: Michael Stevenson Contemporary, 2003. Photographs taken in the town of Kunhinga, Bié Province, Angola, featuring portraits of displaced Angolans fleeing government forces in February 2002, during the final months of the Angolan Civil War.
  • Leopold and Mobuto. Filigranes Editions, 2004. ISBN 978-2914381918.
  • Petros Village. Rome: Punctum, 2006. Photographs documenting daily life over a two-week period in the village of Petros, central Malawi.
  • Congo Democratic. Renate Wiehager; Cape Town and Johannesburg: Michael Stevenson; Rome: Galleria Extraspazio, 2006. A photojournal of the events surrounding the contested presidential election held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in July 2006, during which supporters of the incumbent Joseph Kabila clashed with those of Etinenne Tshisikedi.
  • Avenue Patrice Lumumba. Prestel, 2008. ISBN 978-3791340661. Photographs taken in Mozambique, DR Congo, Madagascar, Angola and Benin during 2007/8. With introductions by both Tillim and Robert Gardner.
  • Roma, Città di Mezzo. Rome: Punctum, 2009. ISBN 978-8895410296. Photographs taken in and around the capital city of Rome in Italy, originally commissioned for the international Roman photography festival, FotoGrafia.
  • Second Nature. Prestel, 2012. ISBN 978-3791346908.
  • O Futuro Certo. Göttingen: Steidl; The Walther Collection, 2015. ISBN 978-3-86930-649-0. Selections from Tillim's various publications of the previous decade, including Mai Mai Militia in Training, Jo'burg, Avenue Patrice Lumumba, and Second Nature.[22]
  • Edit Beijing. Paris: Bessard, 2017. Photographs of people on the streets of Beijing made over a two-week period. Edition of 500 copies.

Awards edit

Exhibitions edit

  • 2006: SLUM: Art and life in the here and now of the civil age, Neue Galerie in Graz, Austria[27]
  • 2006: São Paulo Art Biennial[28]
  • 2007: Included in FotoGrafia, Rome's International Festival in the group exhibition Non Tutte Le Strade Portano a Roma, Ex Gil[29][n 1]
  • 2007: Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg[30]
  • 2007: Congo Democratic, Extraspazio, Rome[31]
  • 2007: Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery[32]
  • 2007: Photography, Video, Mixed Media III, DaimlerChrysler Gallery, Berlin[33]
  • 2012: Second Nature, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam[34]
  • 2014: The Divine Comedy. Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, curated by Simon Njami[21]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Links in this quotation have been added for this encyclopedia entry

References edit

  1. ^ a b c International Center of Photography. "Guy Tillim".
  2. ^ a b c South African History Online. "Guy Tillim".
  3. ^ a b c d e Poplak 2011.
  4. ^ a b c d Gutberlet, Marie-Hélène (2018). "Presentness, Memory and History". In Helff, Sissy; Michels, Stefanie (eds.). Presentness, Memory and History: Thabiso Sekgala, "Homeland". Memory – History – Archives. Transcript Verlag. pp. 69–88. ISBN 978-3-8376-3006-0. JSTOR j.ctv1wxt5s.8. Retrieved 14 November 2021. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. ^ Tate. "Guy Tillim born 1962". Tate. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d O'Donnell Hulme, Mary (10 July 2018). "Guy Tillim: Biography". International Center of Photography. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  7. ^ LensCulture, Guy Tillim |. "Guy Tillim". LensCulture. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  8. ^ a b c African Success 2007.
  9. ^ Poplak, Richard (18 May 2011). "Floating worlds: SA photographer relocates the African modern". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  10. ^ "About Success Afrika - Only Books". successafrika.com/. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  11. ^ a b c d "Guy Tillim | Peabody Museum". www.peabody.harvard.edu. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  12. ^ a b c d HAYES, PATRICIA (2007). "Power, Secrecy, Proximity: A Short History of South African Photography". Kronos (33): 139–162. ISSN 0259-0190. JSTOR 41056585.
  13. ^ Mary, O'Donnell Hulme. "Guy Tillim: Biography". International Center of Photography.
  14. ^ "Agence VU - Guy Tillim". www.agencevu.com. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  15. ^ a b Gaule, Sally (2006). "Guy Tillim: Joburg downtown". De Arte. 41 (73): 43–50. doi:10.1080/00043389.2006.11877053. S2CID 194785870.
  16. ^ a b Zegeye, Abebe (1 March 2003). "Amulets and Dreams: War Youth and Change in Africa". Social Identities. 9 (1): 37–50. doi:10.1080/1350463032000075326. ISSN 1350-4630. S2CID 143484984.
  17. ^ a b Machen, Peter (22 June 2009). "An Interview with Guy Tillim (2005)". AMERICAN SUBURB X. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  18. ^ "Afrapix Chronology 1981-1991 | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  19. ^ "Apartheid". HISTORY. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  20. ^ a b c TILLIM, GUY; LEHAN, JOANNA (2008). "Guy Tillim: Things as They Seem: Interview with Joanna Lehan". Aperture (193): 60–65. ISSN 0003-6420. JSTOR 24473509.
  21. ^ a b c d Africa, Art South. "The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists - Art Africa Magazine". Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  22. ^ "O Futuro Certo - Guy Tillim". Steidl Verlag. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  23. ^ "Michael Stevenson". archive.stevenson.info. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  24. ^ "Guy Tillim". Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  25. ^ "Daimler Art Collection". Daimler Art Collection. 14 February 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  26. ^ "Guy Tillim, winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2005 - LOBA". Guy Tillim, winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2005 - LOBA. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  27. ^ "Michael Stevenson". archive.stevenson.info. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  28. ^ "Christian Rattemeyer on the 27th São Paulo Bienal". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  29. ^ "Guy Tillim", Michael Stevenson Gallery website
  30. ^ "Guy Tillim at The Goodman Gallery Johannesburg - Artmap.com". artmap.com. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  31. ^ Arnet Worldwide Corporation. "Guy Tillim (South African, born 1962): Timeline". Arnet. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  32. ^ "Africa Remix". Contemporary And (in German). Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  33. ^ "Daimler Art Collection". Daimler Art Collection. 16 February 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  34. ^ "STEVENSON | Guy Tillim". archive.stevenson.info. Retrieved 14 November 2021.

Bibliography edit

  • Maltz-Leca, Leora (1 September 2011). . ArteEast. Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  • Poplak, Richard (18 May 2011). "Floating worlds: SA photographer relocates the African modern". Daily Maverick.
  • "Biography of Guy Tillim". African Success. 22 July 2007.
  • "Stevenson: Guy Tillim". Stevenson Gallery. 2011.

External links edit

  • 18-minute audio interview with Guy Tillim

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Guy Tillim born 1962 is a South African photographer known for his work focusing on troubled regions of Sub Saharan Africa 1 2 A member of the country s white minority Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962 3 1 2 He graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1983 and he also spent time at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg 4 2 1 His photographs and projects have been exhibited internationally and form the basis of several of Tillim s published books 5 6 7 The website African Success has described him as one of South Africa s foremost photographers whilst the Daily Maverick site has referred to him as arguably SA s finest photographer after David Goldblatt 3 8 9 10 Contents 1 Early career 2 Post Apartheid Work 3 Publications 4 Awards 5 Exhibitions 6 Notes 7 References 8 Bibliography 9 External linksEarly career editTillim first became professionally involved in photography as a photojournalist in 1986 11 8 3 Until 1990 he worked with the Afrapix collective a group of South African documentary photographers providing a unique conduit of photography to world media during apartheid alongside other prominent figures in South African photography including David Goldblatt Steve Hilton Barber and Omar Badsha 12 13 11 8 3 During much of this time he worked as a freelance photographer for both local and foreign media including Reuters 1986 to 1988 and Agence France Press 1993 to 1994 11 14 3 His work during this period was hugely focused on the hostile political climate during Apartheid in South Africa 15 4 12 16 The photojournalists of the era many of whom also worked with the Afrapix collective were photographing often violent scenes of riots war and poverty on the black citizens of South Africa 12 4 Post Apartheid Work edit nbsp Guy Tillim exhibition of Congo photographs After the Afrapix collective dissolved in 1991 and apartheid was politically resolved in 1994 Tillim s work shifted to document the lasting effects of South Africa s almost 50 year long war on its black citizens 17 18 19 Many of his most significant bodies of work carry this theme such as Johannesburg May 2005 and Jo burg Downtown which include photographs of scenes and dwellers of the city 15 6 Of the latter Johannesburg museum curator Okwui Enwezor said that as a series Jo burg represents a practice of post apartheid documentary photography that links contemporary South Africa to its own history 6 In other work such as Things as They Seem 2004 he focuses on the architecture of the city saying in an interview that these photos were taken in places I knew places where I had worked and covered news events 20 He stated that he had always wanted to return and try to find it try to describe it in some way 20 These works and others stood out in the global discussion of South African political climate 12 4 6 17 20 16 In more recent years Tillim s work has shifted from the themes of his career from the 80s to the early 2000s 21 In 2014 he participated in a collaborative exhibit at the Museum fur Moderne Kunst entitled The Divine Comedy Heaven Hell Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists 21 In contrast to his earlier work it reexamines Dante Alighieri s poem through art 21 Publications editJo burg Johannesburg STE Publishers 2001 ISBN 978 2350460147 Photographs taken in and around Johannesburg Departure Cape Town and Johannesburg Michael Stevenson Contemporary 2003 Kunhinga Portraits Cape Town and Johannesburg Michael Stevenson Contemporary 2003 Photographs taken in the town of Kunhinga Bie Province Angola featuring portraits of displaced Angolans fleeing government forces in February 2002 during the final months of the Angolan Civil War Leopold and Mobuto Filigranes Editions 2004 ISBN 978 2914381918 Petros Village Rome Punctum 2006 Photographs documenting daily life over a two week period in the village of Petros central Malawi Congo Democratic Renate Wiehager Cape Town and Johannesburg Michael Stevenson Rome Galleria Extraspazio 2006 A photojournal of the events surrounding the contested presidential election held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in July 2006 during which supporters of the incumbent Joseph Kabila clashed with those of Etinenne Tshisikedi Avenue Patrice Lumumba Prestel 2008 ISBN 978 3791340661 Photographs taken in Mozambique DR Congo Madagascar Angola and Benin during 2007 8 With introductions by both Tillim and Robert Gardner Roma Citta di Mezzo Rome Punctum 2009 ISBN 978 8895410296 Photographs taken in and around the capital city of Rome in Italy originally commissioned for the international Roman photography festival FotoGrafia Second Nature Prestel 2012 ISBN 978 3791346908 O Futuro Certo Gottingen Steidl The Walther Collection 2015 ISBN 978 3 86930 649 0 Selections from Tillim s various publications of the previous decade including Mai Mai Militia in Training Jo burg Avenue Patrice Lumumba and Second Nature 22 Edit Beijing Paris Bessard 2017 Photographs of people on the streets of Beijing made over a two week period Edition of 500 copies Awards edit2002 Prix SCAM Societe Civile des Auteurs Multimedia Roger Pic 23 2003 Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award Japan 24 2004 Daimler Chrysler Award for South African photography 25 2005 Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his Jo burg series 26 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University 11 Exhibitions edit2006 SLUM Art and life in the here and now of the civil age Neue Galerie in Graz Austria 27 2006 Sao Paulo Art Biennial 28 2007 Included in FotoGrafia Rome s International Festival in the group exhibition Non Tutte Le Strade Portano a Roma Ex Gil 29 n 1 2007 Goodman Gallery Johannesburg 30 2007 Congo Democratic Extraspazio Rome 31 2007 Africa Remix Johannesburg Art Gallery 32 2007 Photography Video Mixed Media III DaimlerChrysler Gallery Berlin 33 2012 Second Nature Huis Marseille Museum for Photography Amsterdam 34 2014 The Divine Comedy Heaven Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists curated by Simon Njami 21 Notes edit Links in this quotation have been added for this encyclopedia entryReferences edit a b c International Center of Photography Guy Tillim a b c South African History Online Guy Tillim a b c d e Poplak 2011 a b c d Gutberlet Marie Helene 2018 Presentness Memory and History In Helff Sissy Michels Stefanie eds Presentness Memory and History Thabiso Sekgala Homeland Memory History Archives Transcript Verlag pp 69 88 ISBN 978 3 8376 3006 0 JSTOR j ctv1wxt5s 8 Retrieved 14 November 2021 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a work ignored help Tate Guy Tillim born 1962 Tate Retrieved 24 April 2020 a b c d O Donnell Hulme Mary 10 July 2018 Guy Tillim Biography International Center of Photography Retrieved 24 April 2020 LensCulture Guy Tillim Guy Tillim LensCulture Retrieved 24 April 2020 a b c African Success 2007 Poplak Richard 18 May 2011 Floating worlds SA photographer relocates the African modern Daily Maverick Retrieved 14 November 2021 About Success Afrika Only Books successafrika com Retrieved 14 November 2021 a b c d Guy Tillim Peabody Museum www peabody harvard edu Retrieved 14 November 2021 a b c d HAYES PATRICIA 2007 Power Secrecy Proximity A Short History of South African Photography Kronos 33 139 162 ISSN 0259 0190 JSTOR 41056585 Mary O Donnell Hulme Guy Tillim Biography International Center of Photography Agence VU Guy Tillim www agencevu com Retrieved 24 April 2020 a b Gaule Sally 2006 Guy Tillim Joburg downtown De Arte 41 73 43 50 doi 10 1080 00043389 2006 11877053 S2CID 194785870 a b Zegeye Abebe 1 March 2003 Amulets and Dreams War Youth and Change in Africa Social Identities 9 1 37 50 doi 10 1080 1350463032000075326 ISSN 1350 4630 S2CID 143484984 a b Machen Peter 22 June 2009 An Interview with Guy Tillim 2005 AMERICAN SUBURB X Retrieved 14 November 2021 Afrapix Chronology 1981 1991 South African History Online www sahistory org za Retrieved 14 November 2021 Apartheid HISTORY Retrieved 14 November 2021 a b c TILLIM GUY LEHAN JOANNA 2008 Guy Tillim Things as They Seem Interview with Joanna Lehan Aperture 193 60 65 ISSN 0003 6420 JSTOR 24473509 a b c d Africa Art South The Divine Comedy Heaven Hell Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists Art Africa Magazine Retrieved 14 November 2021 O Futuro Certo Guy Tillim Steidl Verlag Retrieved 3 January 2018 Michael Stevenson archive stevenson info Retrieved 14 November 2021 Guy Tillim Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson Retrieved 14 November 2021 Daimler Art Collection Daimler Art Collection 14 February 2014 Retrieved 14 November 2021 Guy Tillim winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2005 LOBA Guy Tillim winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2005 LOBA Retrieved 14 November 2021 Michael Stevenson archive stevenson info Retrieved 14 November 2021 Christian Rattemeyer on the 27th Sao Paulo Bienal www artforum com Retrieved 14 November 2021 Guy Tillim Michael Stevenson Gallery website Guy Tillim at The Goodman Gallery Johannesburg Artmap com artmap com Retrieved 14 November 2021 Arnet Worldwide Corporation Guy Tillim South African born 1962 Timeline Arnet Retrieved 14 November 2021 Africa Remix Contemporary And in German Retrieved 14 November 2021 Daimler Art Collection Daimler Art Collection 16 February 2014 Retrieved 14 November 2021 STEVENSON Guy Tillim archive stevenson info Retrieved 14 November 2021 Bibliography editMaltz Leca Leora 1 September 2011 On Street Names and De Facto Monuments Guy Tillim s Avenue Patrice Lumumba ArteEast Archived from the original on 25 January 2012 Retrieved 23 January 2012 Poplak Richard 18 May 2011 Floating worlds SA photographer relocates the African modern Daily Maverick Biography of Guy Tillim African Success 22 July 2007 Stevenson Guy Tillim Stevenson Gallery 2011 External links edit18 minute audio interview with Guy Tillim Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Guy Tillim amp oldid 1202459267, wikipedia, wiki, 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