Lot 477: Guy Tillim SOUTH AFRICAN 1962- Leopold a

Guy Tillim
SOUTH AFRICAN 1962-
Leopold and Mobutu series 31: Left: A UN helicopter lands at Bunyatenge bringing a Mai Mai official to help negotiate the demobilisation
of remnants of the Hutu army, alleged committers of genocide in Rwanda, and their families who have taken refuge in the forests of the
eastern DRC, January 2003; Centre: The model of a Force Publique soldier in a display case at the Military Museum in Brussels, January 2004; Right: Training camp for Mai Mai soldiers, Beni, eastern DRC, December 2002
signed and numbered 1/5 in pencil in the margin
archival ink on 300g cotton paper
triptych: 51 by 189cm

Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, Guy Tillim: Leopold & Mobutu , 12 May to 19 June 2004.

LITERATURE
Adam Hochschild. (2004) Guy Tillim: Leopold & Mobutu , Bégard, France: Filigranes Éditions, unpaginated.
Guy Tillim spent July to September 2003 photographing traces of the colonial occupation of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium and
vestiges of more recent plunder under Mobutu Sese Seko. Tillim's images, frequently composed in diptychs and triptychs, juxtapose
historical sites in the Congo and Belgium with contemporary views of the DRC. Adam Hochschild, author of the highly acclaimed King
Leopold's Ghost, writes: 'Rare is the photographer whose work so well captures not only the country before his camera's lens, but also the
country of a hundred or more years ago.'