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Omar Badsha
Photographer
South Africa
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Born in Durban, in 1945
Self-taught, award-winning artist and photographer
Since 1965, he has exhibited widely at hone and internationally. His paintings and photographs are to be found in all the major public collections in South Africa and leading galleries abroad.
Badsha was instrumental in establishing "The Center of Documentary Photography" at the University of Cape Town, as well as "Afrapix", the famous independent photographer's agency, and collective.
Badsha was instrumental in establishing the Chemical Workers Industrial Union in 1970s and he was its first general secretary. Omar and his family now (2004) live in Pretoria, where he is the director of South African History Online, an internet history project.
Books:
Letter to Farzanah, banned by the Apartheid regime
Imijindolo, documents the struggle of the squatter Community of Inanda outside Durban
Cordoned Heart, a book on poverty and development in South Africa
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