About Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He was the recipient in 1994 of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan; he died by suicide less than four months afterwards, at the age of 33. His story is depicted in the book The Bang-Bang Club, written by Greg Marinovich and João Silva and published in 2000. Carter was the first to photograph a public "necklacing" execution by black Africans in South Africa in the mid-1980s. In April 1994, the photograph won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
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