Omar Badsha

Timeline

Life - a chronology of the work

1970s

  1. Narratives 1976 Photo essay
  2. 1976 Seedtimes: A Retrospective – Omar Badsha (Review by Darren Newbury, University of Brighton)
  3. 1979 Badsha's lens don't lie , The Daily News, 19 September 1979
  4. 1979 Boy in veranda. Milton Road, 1979
  5. 1979 Hairdresser. Queen street. 1979
  6. Imijondolo 1979 Photo essay
  7. Imperial Ghetto 1979 Photo essay
  8. 1979 Letter to Farzanah
  9. 1979 Shop keeper's son. Grey street, 1979
  10. 1979 Shopkeeper's son. Grey street. 1979
  11. 1979 Student demonstration. Warwick avenue.1979
  12. 1979 Touting for customers. Victoria street. 1979
  13. 1979 Whitey and friends. Victoria street. 1979

1980s

  1. Narratives 1976 Photo essay
  2. Imijondolo 1979 Photo essay
  3. Imperial Ghetto 1979 Photo essay
  4. 1980 Armed guards at launch of 'Solidarity', a conservative Indian political party. Queen street. 1980
  5. 1980 Boy in veranda. Milton road. 1980
  6. 1980 Christian wedding. St. Anthony Hall. 1980
  7. 1980 Devotees carrying offerings. Badsha Pir birthday celebrations. Victoria street. 1980
  8. 1980 Devotees go into a trance. Badsha Pir birthday celebrations. Victoria street. 1980
  9. 1980 Ismail and Dawood Khan. Field street. 1980
  10. 1980 Mr. Ismail, election candidate for Indian political organisation. Queen street. 1980
  11. 1980 Quilt maker with daughter. Victoria street. 1980
  12. 1980 Rathie players, Badsha Pir birthday celebrations. Grey street 1980
  13. 1980 Spectator, street performance. Brook street. 1980
  14. 1981 Abdul Karrim 'Abla'. Stratford road. 1981
  15. 1981 Demonstrators singing revolutionary songs and jeering at security police monitoring protest meeting. St. Anthony's Church, Centenary Road 1981
  16. 1981 Devotee with pagoda. Muharram celebrations. Stratford road. 1981
  17. 1981 Disabled worker. Lorne street 1981
  18. 1981 Domestic worker. Overport, Durban. 1981
  19. 1981 Dorothy Nyembe, ANC veteran, released from prison after 15 years. 1981
  20. 1981 Florence Mkhize, ANC Women's League leader. Savelle street. 1981
  21. 1981 Funeral. Cemetery, Brook street. 1981
  22. 1981 Man with loudspeakers. Badsha Pir birthday celebrations. Grey street. 1981
  23. 1981 Mr. Hargovan. Wills road. 1981
  24. 1981 Mr. Hargovan. Wills street. 1981
  25. 1981 Sam Kikine, trade union leader, addressing striking workers. YMCA, Beatrice street. 1981
  26. 1981 Street performance. Victoria street. 1981
  27. 1981 Street vendor. St. Wendolin, Kwa-Zulu Natal. 1981
  28. 1981 Student marching to funeral of COSAS leader. KwaMashu, 1981
  29. 1982 Bag sorter. Wills road. 1982
  30. 1982 Blessing commuters. Warwick avenue. 1982
  31. 1982 Children asleep after all night vigil. 1982
  32. 1982 Community protest against bread price increases. Durban. 1982
  33. 1982 Dr. Aubrey Mokoape greeted by Strini Moodley on his release from Robben Island. Durban Central Prison. 1982
  34. 1982 Funeral of Poomoney Moodley. Clarewood. 1982
  35. 1982 Game of chance. Victoria street. 1982
  36. 1982 Lovers. Ajmeri Arcade, Grey street. 1982
  37. 1982 Morning prayer meeting, pharmacy. Victoria street. 1982
  38. 1982 Mourners. Derby street. 1982
  39. 1982 Mr. And Mrs. Haffajee. North street. 1982
  40. 1982 Mrs. Haffajee. North street. 1982
  41. 1982 Percy's. Grey street. 1982
  42. 1982 Resident, Durban Men's Club. Queen street. 1982
  43. 1982 Sayed Abdul Kadir, healer. Prince Edward street. 1982
  44. 1982 Stage for Badsha Pir birthday celebrations. Brook street. 1982
  45. 1983 Aysha and children. Wills road, 1983
  46. 1983 Aysha and children. Wills road. 1983
  47. 1983 Devotees remove cover from Badsha Pir's tomb. Cemetery, Brook street. 1983
  48. 1983 Dr. Essop Jessat, Mrs. Nokukhanya Luthuli and Mrs. Albertina Sisulu at political conference. Durban. 1983
  49. 1983 Initiate. Transkei, 1983
  50. 1983 Mrs. Sisulu and newly elected executive members, Nozizwe Madlala and Hershella Narsee at NOW founding conference. Diakonia Centre. 1983
  51. 1983 Pensioner walking home after tending her patch in the community vegetable garden. Transkei. 1983
  52. 1983 Preparing food. Orient school, Centenary road. 1983
  53. 1983 Scrap collector, Victoria street 1983
  54. 1983 Union meeting. Kajee Hall, Leopold street. 1983
  55. 1983 Workers on strike. Durban. 1983
  56. 1984 90 Fighting Years
  57. 1984 Demolished building. Grey street. 1984
  58. 1984 Devotees praying. Muharram celebrations. Stratford road. 1984
  59. 1984 Devotee suffering from cancer being blessed. Muharram celebrations. Stratford road. 1984
  60. 1984 Hari Krishna devotees. Grey street. 1984
  61. 1984 Hari Krishna devotees. Grey street 1984
  62. 1984 Migrant worker with son, Patel's refreshment house. Brook street. 1984
  63. 1984 Mr. Naidoo, cook. Patel's Refreshment House, Brook street. 1984
  64. 1984 Scrap collector. Victoria street. 1984
  65. 1984 Shop workers discuss strike action at Parish Centre. Durban. 1984
  66. 1984 Tailor and partner. Grey street. 1984
  67. 1984 Victoria Mxenge, UDF leader. YMCA, Beatrice street. 1984
  68. 1985 Ahmed Soni, proprietor, Avalon café. Victoria street. 1985
  69. 1985 Ahmed Soni, Proprietor Avalon café. Victoria street. 1985
  70. 1985 Member of Social Club. Leopold street. 1985
  71. 1985 Mr. Khan. Lorne street. 1985
  72. 1985 Nozizwe Madlala president of NOW and other executive members beside the coffin of slain NOW leader Victoria Mxenge. University of Natal. 1985
  73. 1985 Traditional healer. Queen street. 1985
  74. 1985 Women protestors. Cato Manor. 1985
  75. 1986 Ex-gangster and women, brothel. Wills road. 1986
  76. 1986 Florence Mkhize and Lamontville student leadership meeting with Department of Education officials. 1986
  77. 1986 Garment worker. Queen street. 1986
  78. 1986 Herbalist. Queen street. 1986
  79. 1986 Hindu statuettes. Milton road. 1986
  80. 1986 Inkatha rally to mark June 16th. Curries Fountain. 1986
  81. 1986 Mr. Naidoo, Hindu priest. Milton road. 1986
  82. 1986 Singers leading the procession. Badsha Pir birthday celebrations. Grey street. 1986
  83. 1986 South Africa: The Cordoned Heart
  84. 1986 Thakor Ravjee and son. Sitap Mandil (temple), Prince Edward street, 1986
  85. 1986 Thakor Ravjee and son. Sitap Mandil (Temple), Prince Edward street. 1986
  86. 1986 Worker's play. A.I. Kajee Hall, Leopold street. 1986
  87. 1989 South Africa: Beyond The Barricades

1990s

  1. Road to Tadkeshwar 1995 Photo essay
  2. 1999 Interview with Omar Badsha by Mary Marshall Clark, Johannesburg, August 7 1999

2000s

  1. 2001 Imperial Ghetto
  2. Road to Harar 2001 Photo essay
  3. 2002 Amulets & dreams
  4. 2002 Twelfth anniversary celebration of the overthrow of the Mengistu regime. Hara, 2002
  5. 2002 With Our Own Hands

2010s

  1. 2010 Under the Umdoni Tree: The Art of Ebrahim & Omar Badsha at the Durban Art Gallery
  2. 2015 Activist, photographer Badsha's work on display, Daily News, 08 October 2015
  3. 2015 Badsha Brilliance, The Mercury, 1 October 2015
  4. 2015 One-Man Revolution: Omar Badsha's Latest Exhibition has been called a landmark by Sean O'Toole, 18 July 2015
  5. 2015 Video: Omar Badsha (Artist and Photographer) talks about Seedtime retrospective
  6. 2016 Article on Omar Badsha's Photography in the Kulula in-flight magazine (March 2016)
  7. 2016 SEEDTIME - Omar Badsha a retrospective
  8. 2017 Seedtimes - Omar Badsha a retrospective
  9. 2019 Getting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019

Undated

  1. A.K. Shembe leads his followers on the anniversary of the founders death
  2. Amouti. Kwa-Zulu Natal
  3. A prayer to open a meting of the Amouti Residents Association
  4. At the graveside
  5. Awaiting dignitaries at the unveiling of a statue of the founder of the church
  6. Badsha Pir tomb.
  7. Bible reading. Shembe village
  8. Brickyard worker, off-shift. Amouti
  9. Carrying mud to plaster newly built home. Amouti
  10. Child bride fetching water. Near Woldia
  11. Children at protest meeting. Lamontville, Kwa-Zulu Natal
  12. Children playing, Woldia
  13. Children playing shop. Amouti
  14. Classroom interior. Inanda, Kwa-Zulu /natal
  15. Delegates to housing conference. Tamil Vedic Hall
  16. Disabled mineworker and family. Transkei
  17. Domestic worker
  18. Easter play. Pondoland, Transkei
  19. Family outside Woldia
  20. Farmers. Woldia
  21. Farmers attending market. Harar
  22. Farzanah and great-grandmother. Durban
  23. Food aid. Lalibela
  24. From the house on Douglas Lane by Nechama Brodie
  25. Funeral of the Induna
  26. Funeral of two ANC soldiers killed in clashes with police outside Stanger. KwaMashu, Kwa-Zulu Natal 1984l
  27. Helen Joseph at funeral of Victoria Mxenge
  28. Imijondolo Exhibition
  29. Imperial Ghetto Exhibition
  30. Imperial Ghetto OB36P
  31. Inanda. Kwa-Zulu Natal
  32. India OB01
  33. India OB02
  34. India OB03
  35. India OB05
  36. India OB06
  37. India OB07
  38. India OB08
  39. India OB09
  40. India OB10
  41. India OB12
  42. India OB13
  43. India OB14
  44. India OB15
  45. India OB16
  46. India OB17
  47. India OB18
  48. India OB19
  49. India OB20
  50. India OB21
  51. India OB22
  52. India OB23
  53. India OB24
  54. India OB25
  55. India OB26
  56. India OB27
  57. India OB59
  58. India OB60
  59. India OB61
  60. India OB62
  61. Induna and clerk, pension payout point, Mamba store
  62. Induna Nkonyane. Amouti
  63. Inkatha pall bearers at funeral of Induna Nkonyane
  64. Interior of home. Inanda, Kwa-Zulu Natal
  65. Interior of pensioners home. Inanda, Kwa-Zulu Natal
  66. Ismail Meer speaking at protest meeting. Phoenix, Kwa-Zulu Natal
  67. Mass meeting. Inanda, Kwa-Zulu Natal
  68. Meqoqo: He Forces Us All To See Differently - Omar Badsha In Conversation By Linda Fekisi
  69. Morning Market Café, Victoria street
  70. Mr. And Mrs. Seedat. Newcastle, Kwa-Zulu Natal
  71. Mr. Rogers Ngcobo, chairman of the Inanda liaison committee and major land owner, addressing residents of Amouti about the new development plan for Amouti
  72. Mrs. Cooper enquiring about the release of her son, Sats Cooper, from prison. Durban
  73. Narratives Exhibition
  74. Narratives 3F
  75. Narratives 52-3e
  76. Narratives 126
  77. Narratives 198172b
  78. Narratives m2-2d
  79. Narratives OB-N-66-F
  80. Narratives OB-N-75-F
  81. Narratives OB-N-91-F
  82. Narratives OB-N-97-F
  83. Narratives OB-N-98-F
  84. Narratives OB-N-100-F
  85. Narratives OB-N-125-F
  86. Natal Indian Congress leader RD Naidoo speaking after breaking his hunger strike. Durban
  87. Omar Badsha : Artist & Photographer
  88. Omar Badsha: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary
  89. Omar Badsha Receives Honorary Doctorate from Stellenbosch University
  90. On the road to Lalibela
  91. Pensioner
  92. Pensioner being carried in to collect her money. She died a few weeks later
  93. Pensioners. Mamba store, Amouti
  94. People at prayer. Inanda, Kwa-Zulu Natal
  95. Photographer. Shembe village
  96. Photographers and their archives #1 – Interview with Omar Badsha
  97. Praise poem for the photographer Omar Badsha by Neelika Jayawardane
  98. Preparing food. Orient School, Centenary road1983
  99. Resident. St. Wendolin, Kwa-Zulu Natal
  100. Revisions: Omar Badsha by Gabi Ngcobo
  101. Road to Harar, Ethiopia Exhibition
  102. Road to Tadkeshwar Exhibition
  103. Sangoma, meat seller. Amouti
  104. seedtime cover revert Exhibition
  105. Seedtime Retrospective - a review by Khehla Chepape Makgato (ampersandonline)
  106. Seedtimes: An Omar Badsha Retrospective Exhibition
  107. Seeing and Being Seen: Politics, Art and the Everyday in Omar Badsha's Durban Photography, 1960s-1980s by Patricia Hayes
  108. Shebeen. Kimberely, Northern Cape
  109. Shembe village
  110. Soldiers on exercise. Near Dessie
  111. South Africa chromatic portraits extract Omar Badsha
  112. Stevedore and wife. Amouti
  113. Struggle shooter puts the ‘fist and flag’ label to rest by Tymon Smith
  114. Student demonstrations. Lamontville High, Durban
  115. Student meeting. Lamontville, Kwa-Zulu Natal
  116. Students protest after the assassination of Victoria Mxenge. West street, Durban
  117. Tanks abandoned on old battlefield. Near Woldia
  118. Teacher with her class of eighty children. Amouti
  119. The visibility of invisible moments by Ashraf Jamal
  120. Trade union meeting. Cape Town
  121. Weaving baskets. Amouti
  122. Weaving mats. Shembe village
  123. Widow at husband's graveside. Amouti
  124. Widow of the Induna at graveside. Amouti
  125. Widow pleads for assistance at mass meeting held in Amouti to discuss removals
  126. Women at communal water point. Kemise
  127. Women at protest meeting against removals. Inanda, Kwa-Zulu Natal
  128. Worshippers. Lalibela