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Omar Badsha was surprised that Diane Stewart and Paul Weinberg had tabled their proposal without discussing their respective proposals before the meeting. Paul Weinberg had led an attack on Omar Badsha on several issues not related to the constitution.
Cofounder Omar Badsha grew up in a Gujurati Muslim family in Durban. Labeled ‘coloured’ under the apartheid regime, he was a self taught artist and trade unionist before his entry into photography8. Similarly to Weinberg, he veered away from news photography focusing primarily on straight social documentary.
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Omar Badsha (born 27 June 1945) is a South African documentary photographer, artist, political and trade union activist and historian. [1] He is a self-taught artist. [2] He has exhibited his art in South Africa and internationally. In 2015 he won the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) Lifetime Achievement Award for Visual Art. [3]
Dec 1, 2006 · Durban Art Gallery & KZNSA Gallery Both Paul Weinberg and Omar Badsha came out of a late-Apartheid tradition of social documentary photography. Although Badsha's retrospective, entitled 30 Years: A World of Small Things and hosted by the Durban Art Gallery, omits his early prize-winning non-photographic art-works, it still provides a detailed ...
Mar 14, 2020 · Title: South Africa. The Cordoned Heart Photographer(s): Paul Alberts, Joe Alphers, Michael Barry, Omar Badsha, Bee Berkman, Michael Davies, David Goldblatt, Paul Konings, Lesley Lawson, Rashid Lombard, Chris Ledchowski, Jimi Matthews, Ben Maclennan, Gideon Mendel, Cedric Nunn, Myron Peters, Berney Perez, Jeeva Rajgopaul, Wendy Schwegmann and Paul Weinberg Edit: Omar Badsha Designer(s ...
Badsha highlights the important and underreported stories of women in the anti-apartheid movement in his photographs, including Launch of new established ANC branch, Weinberg, Cape Town (1991), which centres young women and their families as foundational to the establishment of the branch.
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A history of a South African anti apartheid Documentary Photography Collective. Afrapix, a progressive photographers' collective and photographic agency. Established by Omar Badsha, Lesley Lawson and a small group of black and white photographers and political activists in 1981.
