Colla Swart

Colla Swart

Colla Swart, born 1930, is a well-known South African Photographer. She started professional photography in 1982, and has become famous for her nature and people photography in and around her birth town of Kamieskroon. Colla and her Canadian photographer friend Freeman Patterson hosted, until recently, annual photographic workshops in Namaqualand, known for its beautiful floral scenery around August - September.

Especially famous are her photographs of Namaqualand wild flowers, and her multiple exposure photographs.

She currently lives in Piketberg, Western Cape, South Africa, the hometown of her son, and also her grandson the singer, songwriter and saxophonist Jacobus Swart.

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