20 February - 12 April 2009

Print Sales at The Photographers' Gallery is pleased to exhibit Avenue Patrice Lumumba, an exhibition of new work by Guy Tillim.

All works are for sale, prices from €2300.

Guy Tillim's most recent body of work examines the modern history of Africa through its civic architecture.  Avenue Patrice Lumumba travels through several countries in Africa, including Mozambique, Angola and The Democratic Republic of Congo.

The series reflects on the architecture of colonial and post-colonial Africa, looking at the many city streets named after Patrice Lumumba, one of the first elected African leaders of modern times.  Lumumba became the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960 but was assassinated in 1961.  Streets that bear his name have come to represent both the idealism and decay of an African dream.

A widely respected and established photographer, South African based Guy Tillim has received a number of awards and grants for his photography.  These include the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 2005 and the first Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University in 2006.  Avenue Patrice Lumumba is also exhibited at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris and the Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal, with further works by Tillim shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

more images from Avenue Patrice Lumumba

All works are for sale, prices from €2300.  For further information please visit us at the address below, phone +44 (0)20 7087 9320 or e-mail printsales@photonet.org.uk

The book Avenue Patrice Lumumba, published by Prestel, is available to buy from our Bookshop