Rest In Peace, Kevin Carter

Monday, July 26, 2010

Kevin Carter, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, died exactly 16 years ago.


Before he went to Sudan to take the picture that made him famous, Carter was a member of the Bang-Bang Club, a core group of four South African photojournalists determined to expose the violence and discrimination caused by Apartheid. All had strong senses of justice and a conviction that the world needed to see the violence that they themselves had been witness to since childhood.

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