18 Facts About Kevin Carter

Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club.

Kevin Carter 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.

Kevin Carter's story is depicted in the book The Bang-Bang Club, written by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva and published in 2000.

Kevin Carter was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in a middle-class neighbourhood.

Kevin Carter said later that he questioned how his parents, a Catholic, "liberal" family, could be what he described as "lackadaisical" about fighting against apartheid.

Kevin Carter defended the man, resulting in him being badly beaten by the other servicemen.

Kevin Carter then went absent without leave, attempting to start a new life as a radio disc-jockey named "David".

Kevin Carter partnered with the Johannesburg Sunday Express and became a weekend sports photographer.

Kevin Carter was the first to photograph a public "necklacing" execution by black Africans in South Africa in the mid-1980s.

Silva told Kevin Carter, who felt it was an opportunity to expand his freelance career and use work as a way to address personal problems.

Silva and Kevin Carter were apolitical and desiring only to photograph.

Hadley invited Silva and Kevin Carter to fly there with him.

Once in Ayod, Silva and Kevin Carter separated to shoot photos of famine victims, discussing between themselves the shocking situations they were witnessing.

Kevin Carter shot an image of a child who appeared to be a little girl, fallen to the ground from hunger, while a vulture lurked on the ground nearby.

Kevin Carter told Silva he was shocked by the situation he had just photographed, and had chased the vulture away.

The paper said that according to Kevin Carter, "she recovered enough to resume her trek after the vulture was chased away" but that it was unknown whether she reached the UN food center.

In March 1994, Kevin Carter took a photograph of the three Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members being shot during their abortive invasion of Bophuthatswana just before the South African election.

Four months after being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, Kevin Carter died of suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning on 27 July 1994 at the age of 33.