Guy Tillim

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: ""Free the beaches""; ""Open the beaches"" protest. This protest was a reaction to the Separate Amenities Act of 1953, which declared that people of colour were not to use the same public facilities (such as toilets, park benches, buses and beaches) as white people.

: ""Free the beaches""; ""Open the beaches"" protest. This protest was a reaction to the Separate Amenities Act of 1953, which declared that people of colour were not to use the same public facilities (such as toilets, park benches, buses and beaches) as white people.

: ""Welcome to South Africa""; South African port authorities erect billboards at Walvis Bay harbour, in anticipation of a protest to South Africa's continued occupation of the enclave.

: 21st birthday party; A young Muslim woman at her 21st birthday party.

: A new South Africa?; Independent Movement members Denis Worrall (right), Ester Lategan and Wynand Malan share a platform in Stellenbosch.

: Afghanistan; A member of the local militia smoking.

: Afrikaans family; Right-wing family seated in front of the old flag of Orania.

: Afrikaner culture; People dressed-up as 'Voortrekkers' for a parade.

: Afrikaner culture; A living-room furnished in a manner typical of the Afrikaner lifestyle.

: Afrikaner youth; A member of the Afrikaner nationalist youth movement, the Voortrekkers.

: Afrikaner youth; Young female members of the Afrikaner nationalist youth movement, The Voortrekkers.

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Training camp run by the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Eugéne Terre Blanche addressing the audience at an Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) rally.

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Training camp run by the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Training camp run by the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Training camp run by the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) rally meeting.

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) rally meeting.

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Training camp run by the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); A child learns to shoot a gun at a training camp run by the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Training camp run by the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Training camp run by the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Eugéne Terre Blanche addressing the audience at an Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) rally meeting.

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Training camp run by the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Training camp run by the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Children watch a target-practice demonstration at a training camp run by the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

: Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB); Children watch a target-practice demonstration at a training camp run by the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).

: An amputee's grave; Prosthetic limbs lie on top of an amputee's grave.

: Animals; Animals in rural Transkei.

: Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Archbishop Desmond Tutu kneels on the ground and is confronted by police.

: Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Desmond Tutu at his inauguration as Archbishop of Cape Town, St. Georges Cathedral, Cape Town.

: Australian UNTAG; Part of the Australian unit of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG).

: Basket weaving; Women weaving baskets on which fish are dried.

: Basket weaving; Women weaving baskets on which fish are dried.

: Bishop of Kuito's former residence; A child playing in the Bishop of Kuito's former residence.

: Building a Church; A man lifting bricks during the construction of a church.

: Building homes; Gugulethu informal settlement residents build their own homes as part of a housing project.

: Building ruins; Children stand outside the ruins of an apartment block.

: Burial of Crossroads resident; The burial of a resident of Crossroads informal settlement who was killed by 'witdoeke' (vigilantes).

: CONTRALESA chiefs take seat in parliament; A women dressed in traditional costume dances in celebration of a CONTRALESA chief taking a seat in parliament.

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Guy Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962. He completed a degree in commerce at the University of Cape Town, but turned to full-time photography instead. In 1986 he joined Afrapix, a collective of South African photographers that supplied news and feature images -- notably about the struggle against apartheid -- to the local and international media. In that period he worked for Reuters in South Africa, and he also worked for Agence France Presse in the run-up to the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994.
From 1990 onwards Tillim broadened the scope of his work to Africa and elsewhere. He worked on assignment for various international publications, but also pursued his own projects, resulting in a number of major documentary essays From 1998 onwards he has increasingly concentrated on his own work. He now lives in Cape Town.
Tillim’s work has been exhibited throughout the world, and is held in various permanent collections.

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Description: Guy Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962. He completed a degree in commerce at the University of Cape Town, but turned to full-time photography instead. In 1986 he joined Afrapix, a collective of South African photographers that supplied news and feature images -- notably about the struggle against apartheid -- to the local and international media. In that period he worked for Reuters in South Africa, and he also worked for Agence France Presse in the run-up to the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994. From 1990 onwards Tillim broadened the scope of his work to Africa and elsewhere. He worked on assignment for various international publications, but also pursued his own projects, resulting in a number of major documentary essays From 1998 onwards he has increasingly concentrated on his own work. He now lives in Cape Town. Tillim’s work has been exhibited throughout the world, and is held in various permanent collections.
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