doi:10.7916/d8-p2nd-8394Oral history interview with Omar Badsha, 1999Badsha, Omaroral historiesmixed materialPhotographers--South AfricaDocumentary photography--South AfricaLabor movement--History--20th century.--South AfricaLabor unions--History--20th century.--South AfricaAnti-apartheid movements--South AfricaFeminism--South AfricaBadsha, OmarAfrapixCarnegie Corporation of New YorkCarnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa Cape Town, South Africa). 1984 : (2ndSouth Africa, the cordoned heart(b. 1945) Photography career: influence of family; use of photography in the South African liberation movement to educate and mobilize people, stimulate debate; involvement with trade unions early 1970s: documenting work injuries and history of movement through photographs; struggle against government restrictions on photography: use of progressive, church and trade union publications, smuggling of photographs outside South Africa, traveling exhibitions; establishment of Afrapix and Afrascope: progressive young photographers and filmmakers, black and white, documenting South Africa; growing anti-apartheid movement; participant in the Carnegie Corporation of New York's [Carnegie] Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa; themes of photographs for Carnegie project: stereotypes, links between poverty and apartheid, mine and factory workers; emerging South African women's movement in early 1980s; photographic exhibition book for Carnegie project, South Africa: The Cordoned Heart