Awards & Winners

Kevin Carter

Date of Birth 13-September-1960
Place of Birth Johannesburg
(Gauteng, South Africa)
Nationality South Africa
Profession Journalist, Photographer, Photojournalist
Kevin Carter was an award-winning 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.

Awards by Kevin Carter

Check all the awards nominated and won by Kevin Carter.

1994


Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
(For a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby.)

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
For a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby.
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
For a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby.