TILLIM, Guy

About the South Africa photographer, Guy TILLIM (b. 1962, in Johannesburg)

Guy TILLIM started photographing professionally in 1986, working with Afrapix collective until 1990. His work as a freelance photographer include positions at Reuter and Agence France Press. Guy TILLIM lives and works in Vermaaklikheid in the Western Cape, South Africa.

Photo books by and with works by Guy TILLIM

'Jo'burg' (2001); 'Leopold Mobutu' (2004); 'Petros Village' (2006); 'Avenue Patrice Lumumba' (2008); 'Roma, citta di mezzo' (2010); 'Second Nature' (2012); 'O Futuro Certo' (2015); 'Edit Beijing' (2017); 'Museum of the Revolution' (2019)

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TILLIM, Guy - Edit Beijing
TILLIM, Guy - Edit Beijing
The photo volume 'Edit Beijing' by Guy TILIM is the result of his artist residency in China. Other renowned photographers whose works have been published in this series of photo books with original prints are Pieter HUGO, Michael KENNA and Hannah MODIGH.
120,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
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TILLIM, Guy - Avenue Patrice Lumumba
TILLIM, Guy - Avenue Patrice Lumumba
In the photo volume 'Avenue Patrice Lumumba' the South African photographer Guy TILLIM deals with the urban architecture of colonial and post-colonial society in Africa. His focus is on their changes due to multiple shifts in power over the past 50 years.
68,00 € Weight 1.2 kg
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TILLIM, Guy - Jo'burg
TILLIM, Guy - Jo'burg
HC in accordeon style, 13 x 18 x 3,5 cm., 127 pp., 120 color ills., text language: English
280,00 € *
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TILLIM, Guy - Roma, Citta di Mezzo
TILLIM, Guy - Roma, Citta di Mezzo
In his out-of-print Leporello photo volume 'Roma, Città di Mezzo' South Africa photographer Guy TILLIM searches for the city in the middle, the light in the middle. His appeal lies in the strong tension of his search for scale in the city.
80,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
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TILLIM, Guy - Second Nature
TILLIM, Guy - Second Nature
For 'Second Nature', Guy TILLIM visited the islands of French Polynesia and the megacities of Brazil. The search for the 'second face' in natural and urban landscapes contains images of overwhelming beauty and almost Buddhist-looking calm and clarity.
39,95 € Weight 1.5 kg
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TILLIM, Guy - Museum of the Revolution
TILLIM, Guy - Museum of the Revolution
In Guy TIILIM's 'Museum of the Revolution' his Street Photography in cities including Johannesburg, Nairobi among others shows a new reality: it differs from the economic stagnation caused by the socialist politics that accompanied African nationalism.
from 58,00 € Weight 1.2 kg
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TILLIM, Guy - Leopold and Mobutu
TILLIM, Guy - Leopold and Mobutu
PB. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 31,5 X 1,5 cm., 56 pp., 70 color & b/w ills., text language: French
198,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
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TILLIM, Guy - Congo Democratic
TILLIM, Guy - Congo Democratic
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 32 x 29,5 x 1 cm., 36 pp., b/w ills., text language: English
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TILLIM, Guy - O Futuro Certo
TILLIM, Guy - O Futuro Certo
The photo volume 'O Futuro Certo' by Guy TILLIM presents a selection of his most important photographs of the last two decades. Anchored in photojournalism, he portrays communities, social landscapes and symbolic structures within an ever-changing society
from 28,00 € Weight 1.9 kg
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TILLIM, Guy - Petros Village
TILLIM, Guy - Petros Village
The out-of-print accordion-format photo book 'Petros Village' by Guy TILLIM is about the rural life of the villagers of a small village in the East African Republic of Malawi. About one-third of the double-page photographs show portraits of its residents.
120,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
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Awards (a selection)
  • 2005. Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his 'Joburg' series
    2006: 1st Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, Peabody Museum at Harvard University
Exhibitions (a selection)
  • 2005: The Photographers Gallery, London
    2006: International Center of Photography, New York; 'Petros Village', Museo di Roma in Trastevere/FotoGrafia Festival, Rome
    2007: Documenta 12, Kassel
    2011: 'Appropriated Landscapes: Contemporary African Photography from The Walther Collection';  'Avenue Patrice Lumumba', Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
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