18 records
Afrapix
Black and white poster. Four photographs in negative form of various events in South Africa. Advertisement for Afrapix. Reel of negatives…
ArchiveAfrapix flyer
A flyer distributed to raise awareness about the Afrapix collective. Circa mid – 1980s.
Afrapix : 1989 : Cultural calendar
Grey poster with red lettering and red Afrapix logo. Seven black and white photographs of various scenes from South Africa.
1986: working together: EDA and Afrapix calendar
Black and white poster. EDA (Environmental Development Agency) and Afrapix calendar. Cover page. Words 'working together' in three…
Theses and DissertationsAfrapix - Social Documentary Photography in 1980s South Africa by Amy McConaghy
Long Live UDF
A2 red and black on yellow; litho; UDF logo; text: Rally Long Live! UDF Hannover Park Civic Sat 19 Oct
Interview with Omar Badsha by Marian Nur Goni
An email interview with Omar Badsha in 2009 conducted by Marian Nur Goni for a masters theses. Afrapix: Some Questions Email interview…
Short speech by Desmond Tutu
White, black and brown poster. Short speech by Desmond Tutu, Bishop of Johannesburg. Artwork of chain of black and white people holding…
Joburg City : Whose City?
White poster with black lettering. Notice of an oral history research project and photographic exhibition, at Johannesburg Art Gallery,…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
Photography is the common language of modern history. It’s everywhere; and everyone, in some way, understands it. No institution presents…
ArticleA story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018
The death of Sam Nzima, the man who took the photograph that came to symbolise all that was wrong with apartheid and how it would be…
ArticleThe boundless energy of Paul Grendon; artist, painter, activist and documentary photographer by Chris Ledochowski
It is with great difficulty that I find myself writing about a friend so recently deceased and who was so much part of my life for over…
ArticleApartheid - a vigilant witness
Presented by Paul Weinberg
ArticleChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
It’s early winter in Cape Town, cold and gray, when I take the 1044 train from Newlands station on a Saturday afternoon to meet the…
ArticleGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
THE ROOM IS deeply silent, but robustly populated. All eyes are focused on the speaker, who is out of your line of sight. In this 1989…
ImagesStaffrider Vol.4 No.4 Mar 1982 - Women in Azania
Photographs from Biddy Partridge and Omar Badsha of Afrapix featured in Staffrider Magazine Vol.4 No.4 March 1982 - Women In Azania
Theses and DissertationsPhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and…
ArticleOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
This moment’s gaping generational divide, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and…