CAPE TOWN photographer Guy Tillim has proved over and over that he is one of the country's respected photographers.
His latest exhibition at the Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town proves that because of his passion for photography, Tillim has been able to capture some of the best landscape photos anyone would ever wish to see.
Tillim has been photographing landscapes in French Polynesia since 2010 and says the subject of the representation of landscape is similar to those that exist today.
"In making photographs of the landscape, I have to confront the difficulty of actually seeing it. It's a space that changes its face with a glance or a ghost of a thought.
"The impulse to convey unknown elements in relation to my insignificance on the scene is almost overwhelming. When I lift the lens to my eye, I hesitate. Perhaps I look for certitude in clichés, those motifs often inappropriately used in describing landscape, that tend to isolate some elements to the negation of others," Tillim says.
"Perhaps the scene is only beautiful when all the elements are palpably part of the whole."
He says there are obvious ways to convey components of the scene.
"But what about that which lies in-between, the indeterminate space that conveys the texture of the place, its feeling, its sensation, its quotidian elements alongside the spectacular?"
A book featuring his works that are on show will be published by Prestel next year.
Among the awards that Tillim has already secured, are the DaimlerChrysler Award and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 2005.
His exhibition is on at Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town until September 3.
Tillim works on show
CAPE TOWN photographer Guy Tillim has proved over and over that he is one of the country's respected photographers.
His latest exhibition at the Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town proves that because of his passion for photography, Tillim has been able to capture some of the best landscape photos anyone would ever wish to see.
Tillim has been photographing landscapes in French Polynesia since 2010 and says the subject of the representation of landscape is similar to those that exist today.
"In making photographs of the landscape, I have to confront the difficulty of actually seeing it. It's a space that changes its face with a glance or a ghost of a thought.
"The impulse to convey unknown elements in relation to my insignificance on the scene is almost overwhelming. When I lift the lens to my eye, I hesitate. Perhaps I look for certitude in clichés, those motifs often inappropriately used in describing landscape, that tend to isolate some elements to the negation of others," Tillim says.
"Perhaps the scene is only beautiful when all the elements are palpably part of the whole."
He says there are obvious ways to convey components of the scene.
"But what about that which lies in-between, the indeterminate space that conveys the texture of the place, its feeling, its sensation, its quotidian elements alongside the spectacular?"
A book featuring his works that are on show will be published by Prestel next year.
Among the awards that Tillim has already secured, are the DaimlerChrysler Award and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 2005.
His exhibition is on at Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town until September 3.
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