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Kevin Carter: The Photographer of Suffering and Silence, Schemes and Mind Maps of Pharmacy

The University of Montana (UM)Pharmacy

This document tells the story of Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist born during the year of the Sharpeville massacre. After dropping out of pharmacy studies and serving in the military, Carter became a photojournalist, documenting the brutality of apartheid and the famine in Sudan. His most famous photograph, taken in 1993, shows a starving girl and a vulture, raising ethical questions about the role of the photographer in capturing suffering. Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for this image but later took his own life.

What you will learn

  • How did Kevin Carter's experiences in South Africa influence his work and ultimately his life?
  • What role did Kevin Carter play in documenting apartheid in South Africa?
  • What ethical questions were raised about Kevin Carter's famous photograph of a starving girl and a vulture?

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alfredo jaar: the sound of silence, 1995
kevin
kevin
kevin carter
kevin carter was born in south africa in 1960
1960 was the year of the sharpville massacre
south african police opened fire
on peaceful demonstrators
they were protesting apartheid
69 people were killed
more than 300 were wounded
the african national congress was banned
and armed resistance to apartheid began
kevin
kevin carter
after dropping from his pharmacy studies
he was conscripted into
the south african defense forces
which he despised
one day he shielded a black waiter
against other soldiers
they called him a kaffir-boetie
(nigger lover)
they struck him severely
in 1980, he went absent without leave
he rode a motorcycle to durban
and became a dj
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alfredo jaar: the sound of silence, 1995 kevin kevin kevin carter kevin carter was born in south africa in 1960 1960 was the year of the sharpville massacre south african police opened fire on peaceful demonstrators they were protesting apartheid 69 people were killed more than 300 were wounded the african national congress was banned and armed resistance to apartheid began kevin kevin carter after dropping from his pharmacy studies he was conscripted into the south african defense forces which he despised one day he shielded a black waiter against other soldiers they called him a kaffir-boetie (nigger lover) they struck him severely in 1980, he went absent without leave he rode a motorcycle to durban and became a dj

but he lost his job he tried to kill himself swallowing rat poison he survived and returned to the army to finish his service in pretoria in 1983, while on guard duty, he was injured by a bomb that killed 19 people he survived and finished his service kevin kevin carter he found a job at a camera repair shop he slowly drifted into photojournalism he started working for the johannesburg star in 1984 he exposed the brutality of apartheid he documented many of the riots sweeping the black townships he became well-known with three other white photographers they took many risks they were arrested many times they were called the bang-bang club they witnessed too many murders they survived too many murders kevin on march 1, 1993, kevin carter travelled north to sudan

talked to god and cried kevin kevin the new york times purchased this photograph and ran it on march 26, 1993 magazines and newspapers from around the world reproduced the image thousands of people wrote they called asking what had happened to the child why didn't he help the little girl, they asked "the man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene", a critic wrote in april 1994, kevin carter received the pulitzer prize for this photograph kevin carter committed suicide in the month of july 1994 he connected a green hose to the exhaust pipe of his red pickup truck and gassed himself to death "I am really, really sorry", he wrote "I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain...

of starving or wounded children..." "the pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist". kevin kevin kevin carter is survived by his daughter megan this photograph is owned by the megan patricia carter trust the rights of this photograph are managed by corbis corbis is owned by bill gates corbis is the largest photo agency in the world corbis controls close to 100 million photographs the reference number of this photograph is corbis 0000295711 - 001 no one knows what happened to the child the end