Hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask the fate of the girl. Sold to The New York Times, the photograph first appeared on 26 March 1993 and was carried in many other newspapers around the world. He was told not to touch the children for fear of transmitting disease. Carter reported taking the picture, because it was his "job title", and leaving. In March 1993, while on a trip to Sudan, Carter was preparing to photograph a starving toddler trying to reach a feeding center when a hooded vulture landed nearby. Being a witness to something this horrible wasn't necessarily such a bad thing to do." Prize-winning photograph in SudanĬarter's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, March 1993 then I felt that maybe my actions hadn't been at all bad. But then people started talking about those pictures.
Carter later spoke of the images: "I was appalled at what they were doing. In 1984, he moved on to work for the Johannesburg Star, bent on exposing the brutality of apartheid.Ĭarter was the first to photograph a public execution " necklacing" by black Africans in South Africa in the mid-1980s. Early workĬarter had started to work as a weekend sports photographer in 1983. After witnessing the Church Street bombing in Pretoria in 1983, he decided to become a news photographer and journalist. Soon after, he decided to serve out the rest of his required military service. This, however, proved more difficult than he had anticipated. He then went AWOL, attempting to start a new life as a radio disk-jockey named "David". Carter defended the man, resulting in him being badly beaten by the other servicemen. In 1980, he witnessed a black mess-hall waiter being insulted.
To escape from the infantry, he enlisted in the Air Force in which he served four years. Īfter high school, Carter dropped out of his studies to become a pharmacist and was drafted into the army. He said later that he questioned how his parents, a Catholic, "liberal" family, could be what he described as 'lackadaisical' about fighting against apartheid. As a child, he occasionally saw police raids to arrest blacks who were illegally living in the area. Carter grew up in a middle-class, whites-only neighborhood. Kevin Carter was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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