Shocking Real Life Story Of Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 – 27 July 1994) was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club . He was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan . He committed suicide at the age of 33. His story is depicted in the 2010 feature film The Bang-Bang Club , in which he was played by Taylor Kitsch . Early life Kevin Carter was born in Johannesburg , South Africa . Carter grew up in a middle-class, whites-only neighborhood. As a child, he occasionally saw police raids to arrest blacks who were illegally living in the area. He said later that he questioned how his parents, a Catholic , "liberal" family, could be what he described as 'lackadaisical' about fighting against apartheid . After high school, Carter dropped out of his studies to become a pharmacist and was drafted into the army . To escape from the infantry,...