1953 Born in Cape Town on 27th of February.

1970s While in standard 7 (high school), dropped out to join the staff of the Cape Town newspaper Die Burger as a darkroom assistant/messenger/cleaner and junior photographer. After that he worked as a photographer for the newspapers Die Burger, Afrikaans Sunday national newspaper, Rapport, Die Beeld, The Rand Daily Mail, and The Sunday Times.

1978 World Press Photo 3rd prize, Spot News category.

1986–2000 Worked for the Paris/New York picture agency Sipa Press as a South African correspondent and photojournalist. The Sunday Times fired him when they found out. Sipa Press terminated Juhan’s freelance contract after Nelson Mandela had stepped down as president of South Africa at the end of 1999, citing the fact that world interest had moved away from South Africa and South Africa was no longer a story.

1987 South Africa in Black and White, published by Harrap (London), was declared prohibited literature in South Africa.

1990 A photo by Juhan Kuus was published in the album 75 Years of Leica Photography, which covered the years 1914–1989.

1992 World Press Photo 3rd prize, Daily Life category.

2000s Concentrated on concerned humanist/social documentary photography, with an emphasis on the growing gangsterism and crime, as well as the downtrodden.

2002 Picture editor/photographer on the Cape Town NPO (non profit organisation) homeless people’s magazine The Big Issue.

2003 Moved to the Western Cape province town of Oudtshoorn, working as a leather cutter, along with his father Harry Kuus. While in Oudtshoorn, he focused on the plight of the exploited farm worker.

2004–2005 Picture editor on the Cape Town daily newspaper, Die Burger.

2006 Returned to freelancing.

2008 Cooperation started with the gallery owner Gavin Furlonger, the founder of PAPA (the Photographic Archival and Preservation Association).

2015 On 12th of July, he died after falling down a flight of stairs in the St Monica Shelter House of Cape Town in which he was living.

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