Kevin Carter was born in September 13, 1960- Died July 27,1994. He was born the same time Nelson Mandela was put in jail. He was a South African award winning photojournalist and member of the Bang Bang Club.The Bang Bang club was a film about four young combat photographers capturing the final days of Apartheid in South Africa. Kevin did not accept the way blacks were treated so he took of all his anger out of his amazing photographs. However, Kevin did start out as a sports photographer in 1983 recording images of repression, anti-apartheid, and violence.
TRAGIC PHOTOGRAPHS KEVIN CARTER TOOK IN SOMALIA
Kevin Carter famous photograph EVER ! :
The image presaged no celebration: a child barely alive, a vulture so eager for carrion. Yet the photograph that epitomized Sudan's famine would win Kevin Carter fame -- and hopes for anchoring a career spent hounding the news, free- lancing in war zones, waiting anxiously for assignments amid dire finances, staying in the line of fire for that one great picture. On May 23, 14 months after capturing that memorable scene, Carter walked up to the dais in the classical rotunda of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library and received the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
The image presaged no celebration: a child barely alive, a vulture so eager for carrion. Yet the photograph that epitomized Sudan's famine would win Kevin Carter fame -- and hopes for anchoring a career spent hounding the news, free- lancing in war zones, waiting anxiously for assignments amid dire finances, staying in the line of fire for that one great picture. On May 23, 14 months after capturing that memorable scene, Carter walked up to the dais in the classical rotunda of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library and received the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
Brief Biography about Kevin Carter-
His devoutly Roman Catholic parents, Jimmy and Roma, lived in Parkmore, a tree-lined Johannesburg suburb -- and they accepted apartheid. Kevin, however, | like many of his generation, soon began to question it openly.
"The police used to go around arresting black people for not carrying their passes," his mother recalls. "They used to treat them very badly, and we felt unable to do anything about it. But Kevin got very angry about it. He used to have arguments with his father.
'Why couldn't we do something about it? Why didn't we go shout at those police?' " Kevin knew he had to make a change so he started to shoot pictures and make them World-wide and show the outside world this was how blacks were getting treated and he did not like it.
His devoutly Roman Catholic parents, Jimmy and Roma, lived in Parkmore, a tree-lined Johannesburg suburb -- and they accepted apartheid. Kevin, however, | like many of his generation, soon began to question it openly.
"The police used to go around arresting black people for not carrying their passes," his mother recalls. "They used to treat them very badly, and we felt unable to do anything about it. But Kevin got very angry about it. He used to have arguments with his father.
'Why couldn't we do something about it? Why didn't we go shout at those police?' " Kevin knew he had to make a change so he started to shoot pictures and make them World-wide and show the outside world this was how blacks were getting treated and he did not like it.
The following gallery pictures are examples from his assignments and photojournalist jobs just before his death.
- "What made you choose to research this particular artist? I chose this particular artist because when I looked at his photographs it had me in shocked. These photographs shows that there are terrifying situations happening all around us.
- What did you find most interesting about them? Kevin Carter's photographs sends a message to me saying that I should protect everyone and everything cause you never know when they are gone.
- What reaction did you first have when you viewed their work? My reaction that I had was shocking, to see all these innocent young black kids starving and even getting killed, it's just so sad.
- What is you absolute favorite photograph from this artist (Explain why)? My absolute favorite photograph from this artist is the vulture that is ready to eat the child. This picture is so powerful because as the little child is dieing from starvation, can't barely move, this bird is ready for lunch. Also, you can see the bones of the child which makes the picture so terrifying and in this you can feel the horror, the heat, the loneliness that this child is feeling while lying there.