'the incorruptible Kodak ... The only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe'

The exhibition comprises a series of single images and diptychs and triptychs juxtaposing historical sites in the Congo and Belgium with contemporary views of daily life in the DRC.

Tillim's work will be widely exhibited internationally in 2004. His solo show for DamlierChrysler opens in Stuttgart in May and travels to Berlin in June. An exhibition of his recent South African work will open at the SA National Gallery in November 2004 before touring South African public galleries. His works are also included in the large Africa Remix show that opens at the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, as well as in The Human Condition at the Alternative Museum in New York, in Unsettled at the National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, and at Galleria Sala I as part of the Rome Foto Festival in May.

1
Left: Portrait of Henry Morton Stanley
Right: The flagpole at Stanley's house

2
Left: The terrace at Stanley's house
Right: Mobutu's marble terrace

3
Centre Malemba Yulu in Kinshasa

4
Children accused of witchcraft

5
Left: Memorial to the slaves
Right: Statues from the colonial era

6
The statue of Henry Stanley which overlooked Kinshasa in colonial times

7
Left: First editions of Stanley's Darkest Africa
Right: A baobab displaying 19th-century graffiti

8
The remains of Mobutu Sese Seko's palace at Gbadolite

9
Left: The Congo River at its lower reaches, Boma
Right: Lake Tumba, September 2003

10
Left: Merchant ship en route to Matadi
Right: The rapids at Kinshasa

11
Left: Display case with a portrait of Leopold
Right: A reception hall at Mobutu's palace

12
Left: The Congo Star
Right: Goma residents salute Laurent Kabila

13
Left: The entrance to Mobutu's palace
Right: The gardens at the Central African Museum

14
Left: A colonial-era statue of Leopold
Right: The Central African Museum

15
The looted remains of Mobutu Sese Seko's residence at Gbadolite

16
Left: Colonial monument depicting a dead slave
Right: Colonial-era graves at Boma

17
Left: Accommodation at a mission station
Right: A hotel bed at Boma

18
Left: Busts of Leopold, his wife and son
Right: A portrait of Laurent Kabila

19
Left: Statue of a miner
Right: The gold mines at Bunia

20
Left: Moneychangers at Mubji-Mayi
Right: Diamond buyers at Mubji-Mayi

21
Left: Guard at the state mine
Right: Independent diamond miners

22
Gum trees planted in colonial times, Lake Kivu

23
On the road between Bikoro and Mbandaka

24
Colonial-era steamboat wreckage at Boma

25
Young swimmer and a captured bird

26
Left: Rainstorm at Lubero, eastern DRC
Centre: Rainstorm at Kananga, central DRC
Right: A woman displaced by fighting to Erengeti

27
Left: Rainstorm at Kananga, central DRC
Centre and right: Solidified lava at Goma

28
Left: On the train between Kinshasa and Matadi
Centre: The landing strip at Kisangani
Right: The road between Bikoro and Mbandaka

29
Left: Mai Mai defence militia in training
Centre: Display case at the Military Museum in Brussels
Right: Mai Mai general Vita Katembola

30
Left and right: People displaced by fighting between rebel groups
Centre: A statue at the Central African Museum

31
Left: A UN helicopter lands at Bunyatenge
Centre: The model of a Force Publique soldier
Right: Training camp for Mai Mai soldiers

32
Left: Russian AN-12 cargo plane loading goods
Centre: View from the nose of a Russian transport plane
Right: Landing at Kisangani

33
Left: Psychiatric hospital in Kinshasa
Right: Portrait of a woman on a headstone