Library, sports club, Kolwezi, DR Congo
Guy Tillim
Guy Tillim
Artwork
2007
Artwork: Guy Tillim, Library, sports club, Kolwezi, DR Congo (2007). Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag. 49.7 x 71.4 cm. Courtesy of Stevenson.
Artist
Guy Tillim
Title
Library, sports club, Kolwezi, DR Congo
Date
2007
Materials
Archival pigment ink on Photo Rag
Dimensions
49.7 x 71.4 cm
Edition
Edition of 6 + 2AP
Credit
Courtesy of Stevenson
Guy Tillim’s photograph of a sports club in the Democratic Republic of the Congo speaks to the flexibility and ubiquity of libraries. His particular fascination with the postcolonial on the continent informs his approach:
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. I can describe moments, or trace a journey, by the images I am left with. They themselves form a thread.
b.1962, Johannesburg