Photographer Highlight - Kevin Carter
This week I would like to bring attention to free-lance photographer and photojournalist Kevin Carter. He is known for photographs taken with the purpose to expose and educate people of the injustice and brutality in Africa. Carter and his fellow photographers risked their lives so that they could capture these horrible scenes. His most notable photograph being a picture of a young, starving child stalked by a vulture. Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for this photo but weeks after this award he committed suicide (some say because he became so depressed from the violence and inhuman actions he had witnessed while photographing).
Taken in Sudan 1993 |
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The trials and times of Kevin Carter and his fellow photographers while photographing in Sudan have gone on to inspire a movie titled "The Bang Bang Club." Below is the YouTube Trailer of this movie...
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