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Fotografia by Kevin Carter - Pulitzer for Featured Photography do Ano de 1994
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The Bang Bang Club

"The Bang-Bang Club was a name primarily associated with four photographers active within the townships of South Africa during the Apartheid period, particularly between 1990 and 1994, from when Nelson Mandela was released from jail to the 1994 elections. Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek, and Joao Silva were the four main men associated with the name, although a number of photographers and photojournalists worked alongside them (such as James Nachtwey and Gary Bernard).

The name "Bang-Bang Club" was born out of an article published in the South African magazine Living. Originally named the Bang-Bang Paparazzi, it was changed to "Club" because the members felt the word paparazzi misrepresented their work. The name comes from the culture itself; township residents spoke to the photographers about the "bang-bang" in reference to violence occurring within their communities, but more literally, "bang-bang" refers to the sound of gunfire and is a colloquial form of nomenclature used by conflict photographers.

On April 18, 1994, during a firefight between the National Peacekeeping Force and African National Congress supporters in the Tokoza township, cross-fire killed Oosterbroek and seriously injured Marinovich. An inquest into Oosterbroek's death began in 1995. The magistrate ruled that no party should be blamed for the death. In 1999, peacekeeper Brian Mkhize told Marinovich and Silva that he believed that the bullet that killed Oosterbroek had come from them, that is, the National Peacekeeping Force.

In July 1994, Carter committed suicide.

In 2000, Marinovich and Silva published The Bang-Bang Club, a book documenting their experiences.

Two members won Pulitzer Prizes for their photography. Greg Marinovich won the Pulitzer for Spot News Photography in 1991 for his coverage of the killing of Lindsaye Tshabalala in 1990. Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer for Featured Photography in 1994 for his photograph of a vulture that appeared to be stalking a starving child in southern Sudan."

in Wikipedia




"João Silva, repórter ferido no Afeganistão...


Segundo fonte da família, o estado de João Silva é considerado "estável", estando os médicos que o operaram em Kandahar logo após ter pisado uma mina anti-pessoal esperançados numa evolução pós-operatória positiva que permita a sua rápida evacuação para a Alemanha.

Segundo informações recolhidas pela agência Lusa, João Silva sofreu amputação de ambas as pernas por altura dos joelhos em consequência da explosão da mina anti-pessoal.

João Silva, um dos mais prestigiados repórteres fotográficos de conflitos, várias vezes premiado pelas suas imagens de guerra, está desde 1996 ao serviço exclusivo do "New York Times", e reside com a mulher, dois filhos de tenra idade e os pais em Joanesburgo.

A mina que o repórter fotográfico pisou estaria enterrada numa zona que havia sido limpa pela unidade do exército norte-americano na qual estava integrado ("embeded") nesta sua missão, uma das muitas dezenas que já cumpriu no Afeganistão, bem como no Iraque, em anos recentes.

Os cirurgiões ainda tentaram salvar uma das pernas do profissional, nascido em Lisboa em agosto de 1966, mas foram forçados a amputá-la, disse à Lusa a mesma fonte."

Notícia retirada do site da SIC.

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