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johnastovall · **The Death of Kevin Carter -** 10-26-2008, 05:59 PM

An interview with Dan Krauss, the director of The Death of Kevin Carter, an Oscar-nominated documentary about the life, work and suicide of a Pulitzer-prize winning South African photojournalist.

kula23 · 10-26-2008, 06:10 PM

Wow that is terrible.

marcus · **Fotofest -** 10-28-2008, 09:08 AM

Alfredo Jaar was commissioned to do an installation on "The Bang Bang Club"
I viewed the video installation and it was amazing and sad.
Every photographer should check this installation out.

Link:http://www.fotofest.org/ff2006/exhibitions_jaar.htm

PhotoPunk · 11-06-2008, 10:33 PM

I was just thinking about Kevin Carter.

Crazy,crazy situation.

His suicide note really makes ya think...spending your 'work week' in such conditions shooting that kind of brutality and hatred.

God....acheiving your beginning fame for being the first to capture necklacing...?!

Then having to pull the camera to your eye to shoot the infamous little girl...what got him the Pulitzer...

I can understand why they did shot such things...for us here in the US, those images where/are what really hits home. We're not used to any of that...and really can't imagine it. Just reading about it NEVER hits home...

Reading a story about wrongful brutal exocutions are one thing...SEEING an image of a burning tortured body in the middle of a street is another...and (to me) what's even more powerful than the burning body is that the 100 or so people are carrying on with their lives not giving the situation a second glance...really shows how 'normal' that situation is.