Omar Badsha
South African artist and activist · South Africa · On the map · Artists · Born 1945 · age 81
Omar Badsha is a South African documentary photographer, artist, political and trade union activist and historian. He is a self-taught artist. 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.
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In 2017, he received an honorary doctorate Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil), for his groundbreaking work in the field of documentary photography in South Africa. He was also awarded a Presidential honor The Order of Ikhamanga in Silver for "His commitment to the preservation of our country's history through ground-breaking and well-balanced research, and collection of profiles and events of the struggle for liberation."
