Art
Guy Tillim's award-winning photo collection maps postcolonial streets
South African photographer Guy Tillim has won the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award 2017, presented in Paris, for his photo-documentary body of work Museum of the Revolution.
The prize includes an exhibition at the foundation in Paris and funding towards the publication of a book.
Tillim's project has involved photographing the streets of African cities including Johannesburg, Durban, Maputo, Beira, Harare, Nairobi, Kigali, Kampala, Addis Ababa, Luanda, Libreville, Accra and Dakar over the past four years.
The photographic traditions of street photography frame the work, which reflects on how the grids and avenues of these cities are the living museums of the successes and failures of the revolutions that overthrew colonial powers.
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