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Greg Marinovich (born Gregory Sebastian Marinovich, 8 December 1962) is a Pulitzer-awarded South African photojournalist, filmmaker, photo editor, and member of the Bang-Bang Club. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He co-authored the book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War (2000), which details South Africa's transition to democracy .
Greg Marinovich of Associated Press, For a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress brutally murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy. Feature Photography: William Snyder of The Dallas Morning News, For his photographs of ill and orphaned children living in subhuman conditions in Romania.
Two members won Pulitzer Prizes for their photography. Greg Marinovich won the Pulitzer for Spot News Photography in 1991 [11] for his coverage of the killing of Lindsaye Tshabalala in 1990. [12] Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer for Featured Photography in 1994 for his 1993 photograph of a vulture that appeared to be stalking a starving child in ...
1991: Greg Marinovich, Associated Press, for a series of photographs of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress murdering a man they believed to be a Zulu spy. 1992: Staff, Associated Press, for photographs of the attempted coup in Russia and the subsequent collapse of the Communist regime.
In the years between 1990 and 1994 the fight from apartheid to democracy in South Africa was extremely violent. The stories painted a picture "of a group of hard-living men who worked, played and hung out together pretty much all of the time", how Greg Marinovich wrote in the preface of the book, however the book aimed to "Set the record straight: …".
According to fellow war photographer Greg Marinovich, Carter saw the trip as an opportunity to fix some problems "he felt trapped in". To take photos in Sudan was an opportunity for a better career as freelancer, and Carter was apparently "on a high, motivated and enthusiastic about the trip". [4]
It describes how Carter, who won the Pulitzer Prize for a photograph of an emaciated African girl being stalked by a vulture, became depressed by the carnage he witnessed as a photographer in war-torn places.
Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 – 27 July 1994) [1] 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 four months after at the age of 33.