Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 - 27 July 1994) is a South African photojournalist and member of the Bangs Bang Club. He is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his portrait of 1993 hunger in Sudan. He committed suicide at the age of 33. The story is portrayed in the feature film 2010 The Bang-Bang Club , where he is played by Taylor Kitsch.
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Kevin Carter was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and grew up in a middle-class, white-skinned neighborhood. As a child, he sometimes sees police raids to arrest black people who illegally live in the area. He said later that he questioned how his parents, a Catholic, a "liberal" family, could be what he described as "indifferent" about fighting against apartheid.
After high school, Carter quit studying to become a pharmacist and was recruited into the army. To escape from the infantry, he enlisted in the Air Force where he served for four years. In 1980, he witnessed a black hall minister insulted. Carter defended the man, who caused him to be beaten by other soldiers. He then went absent without leave of absence, trying to start a new life as a radio disk jockey named "David". This, however, proved more difficult than anticipated. Soon after, he decided to serve the rest of the required military service. After witnessing the bombing of Church Street in Pretoria in 1983, he decided to become a photographer and news journalist.
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Initial work
Carter began working as a weekend sports photographer in 1983. In 1984, he moved to work for Johannesburg Star, continuing to expose the brutality of apartheid.
Carter was the first person to photograph the public execution of "necklacing" by black Africans in South Africa in the mid-1980s. Carter then talked about the picture: "I was shocked by what they did, but then people started talking about the photos... then I felt that maybe my actions were not bad at all.. Being a witness to this horrible thing. that's a bad thing to do. "
In Sudan
In March 1993, Robert Hadley of the UN Operational Lifestyle Sudan offered JoÃÆ'Â Â £ Silva the opportunity to travel to Sudan and report on the famine in South Sudan attached to the rebels in the civil war in the area. Silva told Carter, who felt it was an opportunity to expand freelance careers and use the work as a way to solve personal problems. Sudan's Lifeline operations have been financially difficult, and the UN believes that publishing hunger and regional needs will help aid organizations maintain funding. Silva and Carter are apolitical and just want to take pictures.
After flying to Nairobi, the two find that a new battle in Sudan forces them to wait for the city indefinitely. During this time, Carter traveled one day with the United Nations to Juba in southern Sudan to photograph a barge with food aid for the region. Soon after, the UN received permission from the rebel group to provide food aid to Ayod. Hadley invited Silva and Carter to fly there with him. Once in Ayod, Silva and Carter parted ways to photograph the victims of hunger, discussing among themselves the shocking situation they witnessed. Silva finds a rebel army that can take him to someone in power. Carter tied it up. One of the soldiers, who did not speak English, was interested in Carter's watches. Carter gave her a cheap watch as a gift. The soldiers served as their bodyguards.
Pulitzer Prize Photos in Sudan
Carter shot a picture of what looked like a little girl, falling to the ground by starvation, while a vulture hiding in nearby ground. He told Silva that he was shocked by the situation he had just photographed, and pursued the vulture. A few minutes later, Carter and Silva boarded a small UN plane and left Ayod to Kongor.
Sold to The New York Times , the photo first appeared on March 26, 1993, and syndicated around the world. Hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to inquire about the girl's fate. The newspaper said that according to Carter, "he recovered enough to continue his journey after the vulture was expelled" but it is unknown whether he reached the UN food center. "In April 1994, the photo won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography Feature.
In 2011, the boy's father revealed that the boy is actually a boy, Kong Nyong, and has been treated by the UN's food aid office. Nyong had died four years earlier, c. 2007, from "fever", according to his family.
Other jobs
In March 1994, Carter photographed three Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members who were shot during their failed invasion of Bophuthatswana shortly before the South African election. In the midst of the event, Carter ran out of film, but still had enough pictures to supply newspapers around the world. Eamonn McCabe from The Guardian said: "It is a picture that makes almost every front page in the world, a real photo of the entire campaign."
Awards
In April 1994, Carter's photograph of a starving Sudanese boy watched by a vulture won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography Feature.
Death
On July 27, 1994, Carter went to Parkmore near the Field and Study Center, an area where he used to play as a child, and committed suicide by tapping one end of the hose to the tailpipe pipe of his pickup truck and running the other end to the driver's side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. Part of Carter's suicide note reads:
I am really, really sorry. The pain of life beats joy to the point of no joy.... depression... no phone... money to rent... money for child support... money for debt... money !!!... I am haunted by real memories of murder & amp; corpses & amp; anger & amp; pain... from hungry or wounded children, crazy lunatics, often cops, execution killers... I have gone to join Ken [the recently deceased Ken Oosterbroek] if I am so lucky that.
The 1996 song "Kevin Carter" by rock band Manic Street Preachers, the third single taken from their fourth album Everything Must Go, was inspired by Carter's life and committed suicide. The song was written by Richey Edwards shortly before the disappearance of himself.
References
Bibliography
- Marinovich, Greg; Silva, JoÃÆ'Â £ o (September 20, 2000). Bang-Bang Club: Photos from the Hidden Wars . New York, N.Y.: Basic Books. ISBNÃ, 0-465-04413-1. LIBRISÃ, 4962156
- Newark, Team (2013). The Book of Camouflage: The Art of Disappearing . London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-4728-0293-4.
Further reading
- Fujiwara, Aiko (2005). Ehagaki Ni Sareta Sh? nen [ Postcard Boy ]. Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan: Shueisha. ISBNÃ, 4-08-781338-X
- Kevin Carter's death: Casualty from Bang Bang Club , HBO documentary. August 17, 2006
External links
- Pulitzer Prize winning photo for girl in Sudan
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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