Kevin Carter
(Photographer I like)
Kevin Carter was a South African Photojournalist and a member of the Bang Bang Club. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph showing famine in Sudan.
Kevin would step right into the action that was going on around him o get the best shot. After receiving the Pulitzer Prize, some people said that Kevin was inhumane and that he wo0uld have dropped his camera to run to the little girl’s aid.
Kevin grew up in South Africa during apartheid. He became a photojournalist because he felt he needed to document the sickening treatment not only of blacks by white, but between black ethnic groups as well.
Kevin joined ranks with only a few other photojournalists and a South African newspaper nicknamed the group ‘The bang band club’. At the that time, photographers used the term ‘bang-bang’ to refer to the act of going out to the south African township to cover the extreme violence happening there. In a few short years, he saw countless murders from beatings, stabbings, gunshots, and necklacing, a barbaric practice in which a tire filled with oil is placed around the victim’s neck and lit on fire.
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