1. Greg Marinovich was born on Gregory Sebastian Marinovich, 8 December 1962 and is a Pulitzer-awarded South African photojournalist, filmmaker, photo editor, and member of the Bang-Bang Club.
12 Facts About Greg Marinovich
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Greg Marinovich co-authored the book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War, which details South Africa's transition to democracy.
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Greg Marinovich is the son of an immigrant from Korcula, Croatia.
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In 1985 Greg Marinovich took pictures of Archbishop Desmond Tutu at a church service in Johannesburg.
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From 1983 to 1985, Greg Marinovich participated as a mandatory conscript in the military.
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Greg Marinovich succeeded in finding jobs with Johannesburg-based newspapers as a photographer and sub-editing freelancer.
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On 17 August 1990, Greg Marinovich, who was 27 at the time, went to Soweto to cover the fighting in the Hostel War.
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Greg Marinovich sold the photos of the killings he witnessed to the Associated Press Johannesburg office.
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On 15 September 1990 Greg Marinovich travelled again to the townships with an AP reporter from the United States.
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Greg Marinovich was not interested in being a witness, because of the risk associated, and outing by informants.
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Greg Marinovich then flew back to South Africa and reported again about the Hostel War.
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Greg Marinovich has been shot and wounded four times while covering conflicts in South Africa and Afghanistan.