SAHO features
Photographic publications
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Letter to Farzanah (online book)
By Omar Badsha
Omar Badsha’s first book of photographs, Letter to Farzanah was published in 1979 in commemoration of the United Nations declared International Year of the Child.
By Omar Badsha
Published in 1985, Imijondolo, (the isi Zulu word for a shack or informal housing), is Omar Badsha's second book of photographs. Badsha's groundbreaking book documents how radically different life in the settlement was.
Narratives - Rituals and Graven Images
By Omar Badsha (publication, exhibition & web gallery)
A highly acclaimed photographic commentary on South Africa edited from essays taken over 25 years by one of the country’s leading documentary photographers (Date of publication august 2010).
Imperial Ghetto - Ways of Seeing in a South African City
By Omar Badsha (publication, exhibition & web gallery)
Published by SAHO and SISA as part of the South African Social Identities Series (2001).
Price: book out of print
With Our Own Hands - Fighting Poverty in South Africa
Edited by Omar Badsha (publication, exhibition & web gallery)
Price: book out of print
Amulets & Dreams - War, Youth and Change in Africa
Edited by Omar Badsha, photographs by Guy Tillim and Omar Badshatext by Julia Maxted (publication & web gallery)
Published by SAHO, ISS, Unisa Press. This book covers civil strife and its effects on the society in 6 African countries namely Angola, Mozabique, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Eritria. The book and exhibition opened in Durban at the launch of the African Union by the OAU Secretary General Amara Essay (2002).
Price: book out of print
Our Dream Deferred - The Poor in South Africa
By Abebe Zegeye and Julia Maxted (publication & web gallery)
Published by SAHO and Unisa Press (2002).
Price: book out of print
Cape Flats Details - Life and Popular Art in Cape Town’s Townships
By Chris Ledochowski (publication, exhibition & web gallery)
This book is the culmination of 10 years of documenting life in the Cape Flats African and Coloured townships of Cape Town by one of South Africa’s most talented, but least recognized, documentary photographers. Ledochowski’s painstaking and brilliant photographs document the wall decorations and murals drawn by artists in these townships. The essay of 250 images speaks about hopes, dreams, rituals and social comment by Cape Town’s poor. First Published by SAHO & Unisa Press, 2003, the book sold out. Due to popular demand, a re-print and update of the book was done for the International bookfair in Cape Town (June 2008).Price: R400 plus postage