Rushay is a South African photographer based in Port Elizabeth who likes traveling, meeting new people, learning new cultures, doing community projects and taking the world in spaces that is not within this 360-degree circles where he finds himself. He is now more into using his photography skills for academia.

Rushay was born during the apartheid times where racial segregation existed and that is what made him gravitate towards photography. He wanted to tell his community’s story to the world. Rushay believes that image “is so important as to how people view themselves or how they find themselves represented within a particular space like in South Africa where there was no representation. Beaches were for white only.” He emphasizes on our need to represent ourselves and others, that way we will be open towards accepting other people and that art sometimes need to deliver a social message.