PhotojournalistFreelanceSouth Africa / SudanJohannesburg, South AfricaSouth African
Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He was the first photographer to capture a public necklacing execution during apartheid. In 1993, he took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a vulture stalking a starving child in Sudan — an image that brought worldwide attention to the famine but haunted him for the rest of his life. After learning of Ken Oosterbroek’s death in Thokoza on 18 April 1994, Carter was devastated. On 27 July 1994, three months after winning the Pulitzer, he took his own life.
