Archive for November, 2008

Kevin Carter, the Manics made him famous

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Kevin Carter was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang - Bang Club.  Carter had started to work as weekend sports photographer in 1983. In 1984 he moved on to work for the Johannesburg Star, bent on exposing the brutality of apatheid. Carter was the first to photograph a public execution ...

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

It was while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press that he took his best-known photograph – the picture of police chief General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem, on a Saigon street, on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive.   Adams won the 1969 ...

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Zoriah Miller is an award winning photojournalist whose work has been seen in some of the world’s most prestigious publications. Initially trained in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Aid to Developing Countries, he worked for international aid organizations such as the Red Cross before returning to photography after a long absence. ...