Monday, January 2, 2012

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X was part of a group of four fearless photojournalists known as the Y club who traveled throughout South Africa capturing the atrocities committed during apartheid. X was the first to photograph a public execution by "Necklacing" in South Africa in the mid-1980s. The victim was Maki Skosana, who had been accused of having a relationship with a police officer. After witnessing the Church street bombing in Pretoria in 1983, he decided to become a news photographer. In March 1993, while on a trip to Sudan, X took a photograph of a starving toddler trying to reach a feeding center with a vulture nearby and received the Pulitzer prize for the same.He committed suicide in July 1994 and his suicide note read "I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners ... I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky" Identify X and Y

1 comment:

raghav said...

x-kevin carter
y-bang bang club