For the past year Tillim has been photographing the landscape in French Polynesia. He was drawn to this landscape that has been continuously sketched - and later photographed - since Captain James Cook's voyages in the late 18th century, perhaps because it almost eludes convincing representation. In reading the accounts of the artists who accompanied Cook, Ti...

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Tout au long du mois de Mai à Toronto au Canada, le Festival Scotiabank CONTACT présente dans 200 lieux de la ville des expositions, installations publiques, projections, films, conférences et stages à environ un million de visiteurs. Nous vous présentons ci-dessous le contenu de ce festival, qui présente le meill...

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Photography always puts reality into frames. The photographer takes a picture of something and thereby decides to leave everything else out of it, whereas it might well be possible that the things left out are far more important than the objects in the picture. We tend to object to this by saying that photography violates or undermines truth and reality because it distracts us from the essentia...

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In many African cities, there are streets, avenues and squares named after Patrice Lumumba, one of the first elected African leaders of modern times, winning the Congo election after independence from Belgium in 1960. His speech at the independence celebrations in Léopoldville, in the presence of the Belgian King, Baudouin, unequivocally signalled his opposition to the West's idea of neo...

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The results of the 53rd annual World Press Photo Contest will be announced on Friday, 12 February 2010 at 11.00 a.m. (C.E.T.) during a press conference at the Boekmanzaal in the Amsterdam City Hall, Amstel 1. Following the announcement, the photos will be published on World Press Photo's website: www.worldpressphoto.org. Since it was founded in 1955, the World Press Photo Contest is widely cons...

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In 2005 and 2007, Helmhaus Zürich presented the first and second parts of its World - Images exhibition series. The project now continues with the third part, accompanied, as always, by a publication. One of the main aims of this project is to find out more about the different ways in which artists transpose their views of the world into the medium of photography, especially in an age of m...

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Extra City presents the project Avenue Patrice Lumumba by Guy Tillim in collaboration with the Flemish-Dutch House deBuren a few months before the 50th anniversary of Congolese independence from Belgium.

Avenue Patrice Lumumba is an examination of modern history in Africa against the backdrop of its colonial and post-colonial architectural heritage. It travels through numerous Af...

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Dès ses débuts de photographe, Guy Tillim s’est engagé contre le régime de l’apartheid…

Ce photographe sud-africain né en 1962 se partage aujourd’hui entre Durban et Paris. Dès 1985, il intègre un collectif de photographes militant contre l’apartheid. Rapidement, la qualité de ses reportages lu...

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»A Look Away« is the first of two exhibitions on Contemporary South African Art at Gallery Kuckei + Kuckei in Berlin. While the first show will focus on the latest developments in photography, the second part, titled »Why not?«, will present artists working in various mediums such as sculpture, installation, video and performance.

»A Look Away«...

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