Guy Tillim, Departure Folio ,c.1994–2003, printed
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Exhibited : Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Guy Tillim: Daimler Award for South African Photography 2004, 17 June to 22 August 2018, various examples from the folio exhibited. Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, Leopold and Mobutu, 12 May to 19 June 2004, another example exhibited, Goma residents salute Laurent Kabila after his army takes the city, 1997. Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, Departure, 17 June to 19 July 2003, various examples from the folio exhibited. Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, Departure, 18 June to 12 July 2003, various examples from the folio exhibited. Higashikawa Photo Festival, Japan, Departure, June 2003, at which Tillim was honoured with the Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award, various examples from the folio exhibited.
Literature : Leers, D., Tillim, G. and Walter, A. (2015). O Futuro Certo. Göttingen: Steidl and the Walther Collection, various examples from the folio illustrated. DaimlerChrysler South Africa (ed.) (2004). Guy Tillim: DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Photography. Pretoria, Stuttgart, Berlin: DaimlerChrysler South Africa, various examples from the folio illustrated. Hochschild, A. and Tillim, G. (2004). Leopold and Mobutu. Paris: Filigranes Éditions, another example of Goma residents salute Laurent Kabila after his army takes the city, 1997, illustrated on the cover. Tillim, G. (2003). Departure. Cape Town: Michael Stevenson Contemporary & Bell-Roberts Publishing, other examples of each print illustrated in the folio.
Notes : Including: Guyana, 1997; Kabul Zoo, Afghanistan, 1995; Dust storm, Kuito, Angola, 2000; Unity day celebrations, Bujumbura, Burundi, 2002; Fans arrive for UN personnel during the UN–sponsored election, Quelimane, Mozambique, 1994; A boy holds up his schoolbook, covered with a photograph of Dutch soccer player, at the mission school in Kornieliuskondre, (former Dutch colony of Suriname), 1997; Don Bosco, centre for abandoned children, Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2002; Kuito, Angola, 2000; A boy climbs through a hole in the roof of the former Education Administration building, Kuito, Angola, 2000; Late UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi’s former residence, inhabited by displaced people, Kuito, Angola, 2000; Revolutionary United Front soldier, Koidu, Sierra Leone, June 2000; A civilian takes cover from a Taliban artillery bombardment, Kabul, Afghanistan 1995; Ethiopian dead, after a battle near Adi–Quala, Eritrea, Eritrea/Ethiopia war, May 2000; Civil Defence Force militia (Kamajoors) near Koidu, Sierra Leone, 2001; Goma residents salute Laurent Kabila in Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) after his rebel army’s capture of the town from the Mobutu government, 1997; MPLA (Movement Popular de Liberation de Angola) army helicopter, Kuito, Angola, 2000; World Food Program grain stores, Kuito, Angola, 2000; Bella Vista, Luanda, Angola, 2001; Luanda, Angola, 2001; Displaced people in a shelter they have built near Keren, Eritrea, during the Eritrea/ Ethiopia war, May 2000; On the road between Mazar–i– Sharif and Kabul, Afghanistan, 1996; Former Bishop of Kuito’s residence, inhabited by displaced people, Kuito, Angola, 2000; The evening television news during the Eritrea / Ethiopia war, on the rooftop of the Keren Hotel, Eritrea, May 2000; Mai–mai militia camp near Ben, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2002; Ancient graves, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, 2001; An amputee’s grave, Kuito, Angola, 2000; Asylum for psychiatric patients, Luanda, Angola, 1994; Logging, Guyana, 1997; Tete, Mozambique, 2002; Luanda, Angola, 2001; NGO party, Kuito, Angola; Traders, having boarded a Congo River steamer, the Colonel Kokolo, on its way to Kinshasa from Kisangani, jump off the bridge to join their colleagues for the paddle back upstream to their villages, Congo, (then Zaire), 1996; Springlands, Guyana, 1997; Children bathe in the Coppername River, Guyana, 1997; Near Matatiele, South Africa, 1990; Queens Mercy, South Africa, 1991; Queens Mercy, South Africa, 1988; Weimaraner puppies in training for demining operations Ambriz, Angola, 2000; The active volcano, Mt Nyiragongo, and the devastation caused by the eruption in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2002
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