These photographs were made on long walks through the streets of the African cities of Johannesburg, Durban, Maputo, Beira, Harare, Nairobi, Kampala, Addis Ababa, Luanda, Libreville, Accra, Abidjan, Dakar and Dar Es Salaam between 2014 and 2018.
Link: Onward, Africa (5 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
In Guy Tillim’s “Avenue Patrice Lumumba” the photographer examines modern African society against a backdrop of colonial and post-colonial architecture. Traveling through numerous African countries, including Mozambique, Angola and The Democratic Republic of Congo, Tilliam captures a society in transition, stuck between modern aspirations and the political suppression and conflicting ideologies of the past. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago with funding provided by the Lanna Foundation, the exhibition will run through August at the Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon’s Center for the Photographic Arts.
Essay excerpt from Departure:
Enough seen. The vision was encountered under all skies.
Enough had. Noises of cities, in the evening, and in the sun- shine, and always.
Enough known. The pauses of life – O Sounds and Visions!
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My journeys have been idiosyncratic, often purposeless, not so much to commit journalism as to travel for its own sake. Perhaps the more successful images reflect this; perhaps a pattern can be discerned from their parts.
Guy Tillim | Verbal Hmmm.:
Mention legendary South African photographers in a conversation and in most cases, one name will often pop up and that’s Guy Tillim. Guy is one of South Africa’s top photographers, having started as a war photographer in the 80’s, during the Apartheid era and since then appealing to the art scene with his imagery. Guy has won countless awards for his work, most recently the Oskar Barnack award for his series, Jo’burg, in 2005
From lens culture:
Tillim spoke with me at length about his work and philosophy when we first met in Paris in November 2008. You can listen to an 18-minute edited audio recording of that conversation here.