PhotojournalistNew York TimesSouth Africa / AfghanistanActiveSouth African / Portuguese
João Silva is a South African-Portuguese photojournalist, a member of the Bang-Bang Club, and a staff photographer for the New York Times. He documented the township violence during the end of apartheid alongside Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, and Greg Marinovich. He co-authored The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War with Marinovich. In October 2010, while on assignment in Kandahar, Afghanistan, he stepped on a landmine and lost both legs below the knee. He returned to conflict photography on prosthetics and continues working. He is still shooting.
