Background
A member of the country"s white minority, Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962.
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Guy Tillim
Edit Profilejournalist Photographer photojournalist
Education
University of Cape Town.
Career
His photographs and projects have been exhibited internationally and form the basis of several of Tillim"s published books He first became professionally involved in photography as a photojournalist in 1986, working with the Afrapix collective, a group of South African documentary photographers providing a unique conduit of photography to world media during apartheid. 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).
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 Société Anonyme"s finest photographer" after David Goldblatt.
2006: SLUM: Art and life in the here and now of the civil age, Neue Galerie in Graz, Austria. 2006: São Paulo Art Biennial.
2007: Included in FotoGrafia, Rome"s International Festival in the group exhibition Non Tutte Le Strade Portano a Roma, Ex Gil (16 March – 26 April). 2007: Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.
2007: Congo Democratic, Extraspazio, Rome.
2007: Africa Remix, which travels to the Johannesburg Art Gallery. 2007: Photography, Video, Mixed Media III at the DaimlerChrysler Gallery in Berlin. 2012: Second Nature, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam (2 March – 3 June 2012).
2014: The Divine Comedy.
Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists curated by Simon Njami. 2014: Conflict, Time, Photography, Tate Modern, London, 26 November 2014 – 15 March 2015.
Achievements
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2002: Prix SCAM (Societe Civile des Auteurs Multimedia) Roger Pic. 2003: Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award, Japan). 2004: Daimler-Chrysler Award for South African photography. 2005: Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his Jo"burg series. Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.
Membership
Afrapix.
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Born
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Died
1988 (aged 26) -
Nationality
South Africa
Education
Awards
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2002: Prix SCAM (Societe Civile des Auteurs Multimedia) Roger Pic. 2003: Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award, Japan). 2004: Daimler-Chrysler Award for South African photography. 2005: Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his Jo'burg series. Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.2002: Prix SCAM (Societe Civile des Auteurs Multimedia) Roger Pic. 2003: Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award, Japan). 2004: Daimler-Chrysler Award for South African photography. 2005: Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his Jo'burg series. Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.