179:. They took photojournalistic photographs of effects and impact of apartheid with the aim to create a picture library and "stimulate documentary photography". In 1987, helped establish The University of Cape Town's Centre for documentary photography. Badsha was the head of the photography unit of the Second Carnegie Commission on Poverty and. Development. The study sought to revise the outcomes of the first Corporation study by commissioning more research into poverty in South Africa which would focus on both Black and White South Africans. An exhibition of the photographs included in the Second Carnegie Commission on Poverty and Development study was held at The
93:, 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. 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
183:. Badsha could not attend the opening of the exhibition as he was detained. The exhibition was later held throughout the United States and it became a book entitled South Africa: The Cordoned Heart. He is also the founder of
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