Colla Swart (born 1930) is a South African photographer. She started professional

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in 1982, and has photographed nature and people in and around her birth town of Kamieskroon. Colla and her Canadian photographer friend Freeman Patterson hosted, until recently, annual photographic workshops in

Namaqualand Namaqualand ( khoekhoe: "Nama-kwa" meaning Nama Khoe people's land) is an arid region of Namibia and South Africa, extending along the west coast over and covering a total area of . It is divided by the lower course of the Orange River in ...

, known for its beautiful floral scenery around August to September. Swart has photographed

wild flowers and made

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photographs. She currently lives in

Piketberg Piketberg (also sometimes spelt Piquetberg in the past) is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa, located about 80 km east of Saldanha Bay. The original spelling of the name was "Piquetberg". The town is in the foothills of the Piketberg mount ...

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, the hometown of her late son, and daughter-in-law.

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20070607151654/http://www.agape.co.za/colla/ South African photographers South African women photographers Living people 1930 births {{Photographer-stub