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Kevin Carters birth
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Carter studied pharmacy before dropping out with bad grades a year later
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he witnessed a black mess-hall waiter being insulted. Carter defended the man, resulting in his being badly beaten by the other servicemen
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Carter went absent without leave, rode a motorcycle to Durban and, calling himself David, became a disk jockey.
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Carter moved to the Johannesburg Star and aligned himself with the crop of young, white photojournalists who wanted to expose the brutality of apartheid - a mission that had once been the almost exclusive calling of South Africa's black photographers.
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he moved on to work for the Johannesburg Star, bent on exposing the brutality of apartheid.
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civil war was raging between Mandela's A.N.C. and the Zulu-supported Inkatha Freedom Party. For whites, it became potentially fatal to work the townships alone.
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working on the dawn patrol had paid off for one of the Bang-Bang Club
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Carter headed north of the border with Silva to photograph the rebel movement in famine-stricken Sudan. To make the trip, Carter had taken a leave from the Weekly Mail and borrowed money for the air fare. Immediately after their plane touched down in the
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Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of a Sudanese child and a vulture
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The picture immediately became an icon of Africa's anguish. Hundreds of people wrote and called the Times asking what had happened to the child
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He came under criticism for failing to help the boy, Kong Nyong:
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was carried in many other newspapers around the world. Hundreds of people contacted the Times to ask the fate of the boy
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A few months later after collecting his Pulitzer, Carter committed suicide, the violence he'd encountered in his life as a journalist, especially in South Africa, becoming too much to live with.
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saying he needed a break from South Africa's turmoil, he paid his own way to the southern Sudan to photograph a civil war and famine that he felt the world was overlooking.
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the New York Times phoned to tell him he had won the Pulitzer.
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Carter also become notorious for sticking to the journalistic principle of being an observor and not getting involved
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