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Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 – 27 July 1994) 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 the same year at the age of 33.
Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of a starving Sudanese child and a vulture waiting in the background. The Vulture and the Little Girl, also known as The Struggling Girl, is a photograph by Kevin Carter which first appeared in The New York Times on 26 March 1993.
Nov 7, 2023 · Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist who documented the apartheid era and the 1993 Sudan famine. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic image of a starving girl and a vulture, but he also struggled with guilt, depression, and drug addiction until he committed suicide in 1994.
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Mar 3, 2024 · Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist who captured the Pulitzer-winning image of a starving child and a vulture in 1993. The photo sparked outrage and debate over his decision not to intervene and help the child, who survived the famine.
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Sep 12, 1994 · Kevin Carter was born in 1960, the year Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress was outlawed. Descended from English immigrants, Carter was not part of the Afrikaner mainstream...
Jul 29, 1994 · Kevin Carter, the South African photographer whose image of a starving Sudanese toddler stalked by a vulture won him a Pulitzer Prize this year, was found dead on Wednesday night, apparently a...
Jun 29, 2024 · Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist who took a Pulitzer prize-winning photo of a starving girl being stalked by a vulture in Sudan in 1993. He faced criticism for not helping the girl and committed suicide two months later due to depression.
