Born in Johannesburg in 1962, Tillim saw photography as his weapon in the fight against the Apartheid regime. In the eighties he worked as a reporter and joined Afrapix, the South African photo association. In 2005 he won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. In more recent years, the photographer has been focussing primarily on conceptual land/cityscapes. Tillim lives near Cape Town and is represented by the VU’ Agency.
