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.