Nidaa Husain is a freelance photographer and videographer. Having dedicated years to theatre performance post matriculating in 2006, she pursued her lifelong passion of photography at Market Photo Workshop in Newtown, Johannesburg. A selection of her photographs taken during the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Programme in 2012 were published by The Star, Star Africa, and various other national papers.

Nidaa was selected for a fellowship with Temple University’s Journalism Department in Philadelphia in 2013 where she had to produce a body of work on gun violence. This was exhibited at Temple University, at a conference by the grassroots organisation, Mothers in Charge, and published online.

Nidaa is particularly interested in social documentary and upliftment. Awed by the resilience of the human spirit, she has always felt a responsibility towards the voiceless and marginalised. Driven by her passion for people and justice, she challenges the status quo.

Finding joy in making images across a large variety of subjects, Nidaa is currently enjoying working with artists to bring their processes to the fore through photo and video documentary.

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