• Joe ALFERS • Peter AUF DER HEYDE • Omar BADSHA • Rodger BOSCH • Julian COBBING • Gille DE VLIEG • Brett ELOFF • Don EDKINS • Ellen ELMENDORP • Graham GODDARD • Paul GRENDON • George HALLETT • Dave HARTMAN • Steven HILTON-BARBER • Mike HUTCHINGS • Lesley LAWSON • Chris LEDOCHOWSKI • John LIEBENBERG • Herbert MABUZA • Humphrey Phakade "Pax" MAGWAZA • Kentridge MATABATHA • Jimi MATTHEWS • Rafs MAYET • Vuyi Lesley MBALO • Peter MCKENZIE • Gideon MENDEL • Roger MEINTJES • Eric MILLER • Santu MOFOKENG • Deseni MOODLIAR (Soobben) • Mxolisi MOYO • Cedric NUNN • Billy PADDOCK • Myron PETERS • Biddy PARTRIDGE • Chris QWAZI • Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) RAJGOPAUL • Wendy SCHWEGMANN • Abdul SHARIFF • Cecil SOLS • Lloyd SPENCER • Guy TILLIM • Zubeida VALLIE • Paul WEINBERG • Graeme WILLIAMS • Gisele WULFSOHN • Anna ZIEMINSKI • Morris ZWI 1 AFRAPIX PHOTOGRAPHERS, BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES • Joe ALFERS Joe (Joseph) Alfers was born in 1949 in Umbumbulu in Kwazulu Natal, where his father was the Assistant Native Commissioner. He attended school and university in Pietermaritzburg, graduating from the then University of Natal with a BA.LLB in 1972. At University, he met one of the founders of Afrapix, Paul Weinberg, who was also studying law. In 1975 he joined a commercial studio in Pietermaritzburg, Eric’s Studio, as an apprentice photographer. In 1977 he joined The Natal Witness as a photographer/reporter, and in 1979 moved to the Rand Daily Mail as a photographer. In 1979, Alfers was offered a position as Photographer/Fieldworker at the National University of Lesotho on a research project, Analysis of Rock Art in Lesotho (ARAL) which made it possible for him to evade further military service. The ARAL Project ran for four years during which time Alfers developed a photographic recording system which resulted in a uniform collection of 35,000 Kodachrome slides of rock paintings, as well as 3,500 pages of detailed site reports and maps. Alfers joined Afrapix and attended the Culture and Resistance Conference in Gaborone, Botswana in 1982. He collaborated with Jeff Guy, an historian then teaching at the National University of Lesotho, to produce an essay on Basotho migrants. This was published and exhibited under the auspices of Afrapix as part of South Africa: The Cordoned Heart, the book and exhibition resulting from the Second Carnegie Enquiry into Poverty and Development. Some of his images were included in the book Nichts Wird Uns Trennen [Nothing Can Separate Us] published in Berlin in 1983, as well as the Staffrider exhibition and publication South Africa Through The Lens also published in1983.He worked on a photographic essay on the Fishing People of Kosi Bay, which resulted in an exhibition of photographs shown at the Documentary Photographers Conference at the University of Cape Town in 1987. His project on Kosi Bay, in collaboration with anthropologist David Webster, was cut short when Webster was assassinated by an operative of the Apartheid regime. In 1997, Alfers moved to Rhodes University in Makhanda, Eastern Cape, where he worked in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies. https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/joseph-alfers His work is featured in the exhibition “Between States of Emergency.” https://www.nelsonmandela.org/uploads/files/NMF_states_emergency.pdf Joe Alfers, Self-portrait, 1980s https://journalismatrhodes.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/not-just-an-average-joe/ 2 • Peter AUF DER HEYDE Peter Auf der Heyde was a member of the Afrapix photo collective in South Africa. He worked in various roles within South African media, including being a founding editor of the anti-Apartheid Grahamstown News Agency, which was a member of the East Cape News Agencies collective. His interests include social documentary photography and the political/sociological understanding of sport. He is currently working on a book on political executions in South Africa during Apartheid. He lectures in sports journalism at Solent University in Southampton, UK. • Omar BADSHA Omar Badsha was born in Durban in 1945. An artist, trade union leader, and anti-apartheid activist, he took up photography in 1976. He was one of the founder members of the Afrapix collective and was also the head of the photography unit of the Second Carnegie Commission on Poverty and Development. In 1987 he established the Centre for Documentary Photography at the University of Cape Town. He is the head of the non-profit online history project South African History Online (SAHO) which he established in 1999. https://www.nelsonmandela.org/uploads/files/VisitorsGuideWeb.pdf Website: https://www.omarbadsha.co.za The full list of Badsha’s awards, publications and exhibitions can be found on the South African History Online website. https://www.omarbadsha.co.za/content/omar-badsha-list-awards-publications-exhibitions Omar Badsha: List of Awards and Publications: Awards: 1965 The Sir Basil Schonland Award, “Arts South Africa Today Exhibition”, Durban 1968 Natal Society of Arts Annual Award 1969 The Sir Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Award, First Prize "Art South Africa To-Day", Durban. 1993 First Prize, “Images of Africa" African Arts Festival Denmark 1995 Awarded scholarship to travel and photograph in Denmark, by Danish government 1996 Awarded scholarship to travel in India by Indian Government 2003 Awarded citation for Contribution to Resistance Media by Satayagraha Magazine 2015 Arts and Cultural Trust: Lifetime Achievement for Visual Arts : Made member of the Department of Arts and culture Living Legends Project 2017 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Philosophy 8th December 2017 from University of Stellenbosch 2018 Life Time Achievement Award from the Western Cape Government, Department of Arts and Culture Publications: 1978 Letter to Farzanah. Published by the Institute of Black Research. 1984 90 Fighting Years: A Photographic History of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC). (Co-edited with Roy Padayachee. Published by NIC.) 3 1985 Imijondolo: A Photographic Essay on Forced Removals in the Inanda District of South Africa, Natal. (Published by Afrapix.) 1986 South Africa: The Cordoned Heart. Edited by Omar Badsha. Text by Prof. Francis Wilson. (Published by Gallery Press, Cape Town and W.W.Norton and Co., New York.) 1989 Beyond the Barricades: Popular Resistance in South Africa. (Co-authored with Alex Harris, Gideon Mendel and Paul Weinberg. Published by Kliptown Books, London and Aperture Publications, New York.) 2001 Imperial Ghetto: Ways of Seeing in a South African City. (Published by South African History Online, Pretoria.) 2001 With Our Own Hands: Alleviating Poverty in South Africa. (Published by Department of Public Works.) 2002 Amulets and Dreams: War, Youth and Change in Africa. (Published by SAHO, ISS and UNISA Press, August 2002.) 2010 ‘Bonani Africa 2010 Catalogue.’ (Published by SAHO. Curated by Omar Badsha, Jeeva Rajgopaul, Mads Norgaard.) 2012 One Hundred Years of The ANC: Debating Liberation Histories Today. (Edited by Arianna Lissoni, Jon Soske, Natasha Erlank, Noor Nieftagodien and Omar Badsha.) • Rodger BOSCH Rodger Bosch contributed to Afrapix in the 1990s and his work has since appeared in publications across South Africa and around the world, including Stern Magazine, The New York Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Facts Swiss, The Times (UK), and The Mail and Guardian. He has worked as a stringer for Agence France Presse (AFP) in Southern Africa, and for a range of local agencies, book publishers, NGOs and local publications. Bosch took hundreds of photographs of Nelson Mandela over more than 15 years and a selection of these images were exhibited at the Spin street Gallery in Cape Town. He has also worked as a mentor for young, disadvantaged photographers in Cape Town as one of the founder members of the Icon Image Project. His photographs appear in the following books: All About South Africa: Our Country, Its People, History, Cultures, Economy and Wildlife. Penguin Random House, 2016. Nelson Mandela: Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Champion for Hope and Harmony, Rosen Education Service, 2015. Mandela: The Authorized Portrait, Bloomsbury, 2006. Every Step of the Way: The Journey to Freedom in South Africa, HSRC Press, 2004. His photographs can be accessed on the Getty Images page: https://www.gettyimages.ie/photos/bosch- rodger?family=editorial&phrase=bosch%20rodger&sort=mostpopular His work is collected in the archive of the University of Connecticut: https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/67149 4 You can hear Rodger Bosch speak in this radio podcast: http://www.702.co.za/podcasts/269/tonight-with-lester-podcast/179784/brave-photographers Rodger Bosch’s work is featured on the Private Photo Review website: https://www.privatephotoreview.com/author/dodgebosch/ November 2013 (Click photo to star • Julian COBBING Julian Cobbing was born in London in 1944. He studied at the University of London where he gained his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and later obtained his PhD from Lancaster University. In 1977, at the age of 33, Cobbing came to South Africa and became an active photographer in the Eastern Cape during the 1980s. He regularly contributed to Afrapix in this period. His photographs appear in Beyond the Barricades: Popular Resistance in South Africa in the 1980’s (1989) as well as many anti- apartheid publications. He has an extensive archive from the Eastern Cape. Cobbing taught in the Department of History at Rhodes University in Makhanda where his major research focused on Zulu culture of the early 19th century. https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/julian-raymond-cobbing • Gille DE VLIEG Gille de Vlieg was born in Plymouth, England during World War II and emigrated to South Africa on the 10th of February 1944. She trained as a nurse at Grey’s Hospital in Pietermaritzburg. In 1982 she became a member of Black Sash and in 1984, Paul Weinberg invited her to join Afrapix. As well as being active within Black Sash, Gille was invited into Tembisa, Ekurhuleni, by the then Congress of South African Students’ (COSAS) Tembisa organiser in August 1984. This gave her insights into the political and social lives of activists and other members of this community.