Kevin Carter- Charlotte Laurance

Using a few different Google searches I came across Kevin Carter. Carter was a South African photojournalist and a part of The Bang Bang Club. The Bang Bang Club was a label primarily associated with four photographers active within the townships of South Africa between 1990 and 1994, during the transition from the apartheid system to government based on universal suffrage. In 1993, Carter received the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph that depicts the 1993 famine in Sudan. Unfortunately, Carter committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 33. The Bang Bang Club movie follows his journey (played by Taylor Kitsch). When Carter started in photography, he was photographing weekend sporting events, later he moved to Johannesburg to work for the Johannesburg Star in order to depict the horrors of the apartheid. "I was appalled at what they were doing. I was appalled at what I was doing. But then people started talking about those pictures... then I felt that maybe my actions hadn't been at all bad. Being a witness to something this horrible wasn't necessarily such a bad thing to do." The photo that won Carter then Pulitzer prize depicts a starving young girl trying to reach the feeding center when a vulture landed nearby behind her. Carter was told not to touch any of the children because of diseases that could be transmitted in the area. It was reported that after he made the photo, he waited 20 minutes for the vulture to leave, when it didn't, he chased it away.