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Screenshot of Tillim’s child soldier image series on Michael Stevenson gallery web site

Guy Tillim: Soldiers.

Guy Tillim is one of South Africa’s foremost contemporary photographers. Learning his trade as photojournalist nearly two decades ago, Tillim’s oeuvre has proven to be far more than that of orthodox reportage. His photographs have become increasingly recontextualised as art object within the space of the artbook and gallery.

Source: Artthrob
[via Conscientious, a great contemporary art photography blog which incidentally is doing a series of posts on African photographers. Check it]

Screenshot from Jan-Joseph Stoke’s multimedia photo essay

See also: “War Without End: Congo”

DRC symbolises the promise of Africa as much as it does its desolation. Its soil is full of diamonds, gold, copper, tantalum and uranium. The waters of its river could one day power the continent. Yet because DRC is so rich in resources, its problems, when left to aggravate, tend to suck its neighbours into a current state of abuse and chaos. Fixing Congo is essential to fixing Africa.

Jan-Joseph Stok