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 Kevin Carter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kevin Carter (September 13, 1960 – July 27, 1994) was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club.
There is a song 'Kevin Carter' on the 1996 album of Martin Simpson and Jessica Ruby Simpson, Band of Angels, which is a mainly factual, minimalist, and informative ballad.
A short documentary titled The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club [4] was nominated for an Oscar in 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kevin_Carter   (805 words)

  
 Kevin J Carter - Offering you the personal attention you deserve!
Kevin Carter is one of the most professional individuals with whom I have had the pleasure of doing business.
Carter took the time to help me acquire my current apartment and he did it in a fashion where he went out of his way to accommodate me. Had it not been for Mr.
Carter going the extra distance during the "crunch time" hours, I would not have signed the lease for my apartment that is situated so close to the school where I work, which I must say that I did not have until a week after I moved into my apartment.
www.kevinjcarter.com /testimonial.php   (1087 words)

  
 CJR - The Legacy of Kevin Carter, by Judith Matloff
CJR - The Legacy of Kevin Carter, by Judith Matloff
Carter himself had barely missed being killed covering incidents in Tokoza township, the township where his best friend and colleague Ken Oosterbroek was later shot dead.
Carter had been documenting the political turmoil in his country since 1983, when he was hired as a photographer by the Sunday Express.
archives.cjr.org /year/94/6/apartheid.asp   (375 words)

  
 Sobaka :: The Edge: The Life and Death of Kevin Carter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A year later, of course, I learned what everyone else who still remembers seeing that picture knows by heart: Kevin Carter, the South African photographer who shot that scene retrieved from the edge of Hell, killed himself, not far from a stream where he used to play when he was a child.
Yet in Kevin Carter's case, because of his famous photograph, by the act of suicide he was individually destroyed, becoming a patron saint for a long-silent industry.
Kevin Carter was a father, a son, a friend, a colleague - many things aside from a man who took a famous picture whose victim he barely outlived.
www.diacritica.com /sobaka/2003/kevincarter.html   (1238 words)

  
 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KEVIN CARTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Kevin Carter was born in 1960, the year Nelson Mandela's African National Congress was outlawed.
Carter was covering the unsuccessful invasion of Bophuthatswana by white right-wing vigilantes intent on propping up a fl homeland, a showcase of apartheid.
Carter was distraught and returned to the friend's house in the morning, threatening to smoke a white pipe and gas himself to death.
www.mukto-mona.com /Articles/kevin_carter/sudan_child.htm   (3000 words)

  
 Kevin Carter and the Sudanese Girl
Without considering Carter's birth planets, one sees the Sun/XX143 square representing the picture itself and everything it implies, including the work or the role of the photographer and the type of personality that is required for specializing in this type of photographs, as Carter did.
Kevin is that small child huddled against the world, and the vulture is the angel of death.
The little girl that made Carter think in his own daughter is another aspect of Venus, as well as the great "prestige" and financial gain (the increase of his acquisitive power and of his fame as a photographer).
www.expreso.co.cr /centaurs/posts/bio/kevincarter.html   (1702 words)

  
 Wanting a Meal
Johannesburg - Kevin Carter, the South African photographer whose image of a starving Sudanese toddler stalked by a vulture won him a Pulitzer Prize this year, was found dead on Wednesday night, apparently a suicide, police said yesterday.
Carter was famous in South Africa for his fearless coverage of deadly township violence, and he had become internationally known for his Pulitzer prizewinning photo of a vulture coolly eyeing an emaciated Sudanese child struggling toward a feeding station.
Kevin was a person of passion and presence; he left his mark wherever he went.
flatrock.org.nz /topics/odds_and_oddities/ultimate_in_unfair.htm   (7218 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Television - Page One: Kevin Carter, man of steel - Friday January 28, 2000 11:07 AM
Carter's very real belief that he cannot be stopped is inspired by his insistence that he is actually someone else.
Carter takes his Superman devotion so far, he even has his own version of Lois Lane, his wife Shima.
Kevin Carter dreams that his football outfit is a Superman costume.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /thenetwork/news/2000/01/24/pageone_kevincarter   (698 words)

  
 Michael Fox Weblog: Kevin Carter
That photograph was taken by Kevin Carter and he won a Pulitzer Prize for it.
Kevin was also getting a lot of criticism for not doing more to save the girl in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph that he took - nobody seems sure of what happened to that girl although she was, in fact, very close to a feeding station.
Kevin had seen and photographed violence and death for many years and he was increasingly being effected by it all.
lexardigital.typepad.com /michaelfox/2006/07/kevin_carter.html   (555 words)

  
 Lightstalkers :: The Death of Kevin Carter - London Screening
Yet Kevin’s most evocative image came not from South Africa, but from Southern Sudan, where he travelled to photograph the mass starvation caused by a devastating civil war.
In the dreadful desert plains, Kevin happened upon a horrifying sight: a starving girl being stalked by a vulture.
The Death of Kevin Carter is the winner of the Tribeca Film Festival Best Short Documentary Award, the San Francisco International Film Festival Golden Gate Award, the LA International Shorts Festival Best Documentary Award, and an International Documentary Association Honorable Mention.
www.lightstalkers.org /the-death-of-kevin-carter---london-screening   (425 words)

  
 Kevin Carter a Dolphin - ProSportsDaily Forums
A 10-year NFL veteran, Carter spent the last four years with Tennessee, but was released by the Titans in a salary cap cutting move in February.
The versatile Carter enters a busy defensive front for the Dolphins, who are expected to have all four starters back and signed free agent defensive end Vonnie Holliday on Saturday.
Carter could move to tackle where he spent part of last season while leading a young Titans' line.
www.prosportsdaily.com /forums/showthread.php?p=175884   (711 words)

  
 Cincinnati World Cinema :: The Death of Kevin Carter
Dan Krauss' "The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club" focuses on the tragic death of the South African photojournalist who covered war, apartheid, starvation and other harrowing events in several African nations in the 1990s.
As part of a fearless and cocky group of South African photojournalists, Kevin Carter was a dashing figure who dodged bullets to photograph the violence in the townships of Johannesburg in the years before apartheid ended.
Carter was a handsome, charismatic but often tormented white man who so identified with the travails of South Africa's fl population that he numbed his anger and pain with drugs and alcohol.
www.cincyworldcinema.org /kevincarter.php   (902 words)

  
 Spotlight on Kevin Carter - Register Free, Access All
For the first weeks of Kevin Carter's life, he had no way to see his mother holding him.
Carter, who signed a free-agent contract with the Dolphins in March, ranks third in sacks among active players with 87.
Carter — who met his wife, Shima, in a freshman chemistry class — still plays the sax.
www.nflfans.com /x/showthread.php?t=2209   (675 words)

  
 HBO: The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club - Interviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dan Krauss: I came to Kevin Carter in much the same way many photojournalists have, which is by hearing of his legend, a cautionary tale of the dangers of witnessing extreme degrees of bloodshed.
Kevin's story is really emblematic of a dilemma that has a very broad scope, and has to deal with this question of whether it is better to document or to intervene in scenes of suffering.
She put Kevin in place of the child who was suffering and being watched by the world.
www.hbo.com /docs/programs/kevincarter/interview.html   (1296 words)

  
 Sports - Dolphins Sign Kevin Carter; Release David Boston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Financial terms of the deal for Carter, who spent the past four seasons with Tennessee, were not released, but the Miami Herald said it could be worth up to $30 million.
Carter led the Titans with six sacks this past season.
Carter played his first six NFL seasons with St. Louis, helping the Rams to the Super Bowl title after the 1999 campaign.
www.katv.com /news/stories/0305/211892.html   (559 words)

  
 Father Kevin Carter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Father Kevin was born on October 18, 1960 and he is a native son of Jersey City as were his parents, William and Evelyn Carter.
Father Kevin was thrilled to have Monsignor Manz attend his installation as Monsignor was only weeks shy from celebrating his sixtieth anniversary of ordination.
One of the fisrt things that Father Kevin did was, in the spring of 1999, to implement Stewardship to the parish.
www.saintnicholasparishofjcnj.org /id42.html   (770 words)

  
 From November of '96: Kevin Carter
By most accounts, Carter, the sixth pick of the '95 draft, had a fair-to-middlin' rookie season...nothing special, but actually not a bust, either.
Carter's impact was felt on about eight of those 70 snaps.
Much more was expected from Kevin Carter, whose selection as the sixth pick in the '95 draft was, in the words of John Becker, the Rams college draft head honcho, "a no-brainer".
www.stlsports.com /articles/3.0.feat.11.96.carter.html   (776 words)

  
 Fins ink Kevin Carter - JetNation.com
Carter, who has never missed a game in his 10-year career, will make $10 million over the first two years of the contract and $16 million over the first three.
Carter, 31, was hoping to re-sign with the Titans, who had to let eight players go to get under the $85.5 million salary cap.
Carter, who has never posted fewer than 5½ sacks in a season, was the sixth overall pick in the 1995 draft by the St. Louis Rams.
www.jetnation.com /forums/showthread.php?t=798   (869 words)

  
 The Life of Kevin Carter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Kevin Carter was part of a tightly knit band of white South African photojournalists known as "The Bang Bang Club" - four friends who found their calling in the war-ravaged fl townships, where apartheid was coming to a violent close.
Each day, Kevin left the security of white suburbia to expose himself - and his film - to unimaginable brutality.
Only weeks after being bestowed with the honor, Kevin carried out a terrible act of desperation - an act that, 10 years later, seems to embody the anguish of an entire nation.
theoscarsite.com /pictures2005/kevin_carter.htm   (301 words)

  
 TIMCO Aviation Services - Company : People : Bios : Kevin Carter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Kevin is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Prior to Geneva, Kevin was the Assistant Treasurer for Kayser-Roth Hosiery located in Greensboro N.C. Kevin holds an MBA from Wake Forest University and a B.A. in Economics from Davidson College.
Originally born in Portland, ME, Kevin relocated to the Greensboro area in March of 1996.
www.timco.aero /company/people/bios/kevin_carter.php   (166 words)

  
 Kevin Carter biopic in the works - Cinematical
Carter was a South African photographer whose Pulitzer-winning image of a starving Sudanese child being approached by a vulture vaulted him to international fame.
Ultimately, he was unable to handle the fame, and the scrutiny that came with it (he was attacked for not protecting the child from the bird), and committed suicide in 1994, when he was just 33.
In addition to being the subject of an incredible Manic Street Preachers song, Carter's story was also told in a documentary short called The Life of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club.
www.cinematical.com /2006/02/07/kevin-carter-biopic-in-the-works   (532 words)

  
 Kevin Carter, CPA...
Kevin Carter is a graduate from Bryant College and gained many years of experience from CPA firms in Boston and Providence.
Kevin opened up his own firm in 1992.
Kevin D. Carter, CPA • 1629 Warwick Ave.• Warwick, RI 02889 • Phone:(401)736-0040 • Fax:(401)736-0550
kevindcartercpa.com   (80 words)

  
 Kevin Carter | MetaFilter
In countries with a moving refugee population, countries at war, or experiencing drought and famine, the starving fill the roads, die in the roads and the bush.
You know, languagehat, Carter struggled with guilt over not having helped the child for the rest of his life, and that guilt may have contributed to his suicide.
I know, and I'm not blaming Carter, I'm blaming the people who are too quick to absolve him with "it wasn't his job." They should think about the facts you mention and do him the honor of assuming he wasn't just self-flagellating for the hell of it.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/49763   (2259 words)

  
 NPR : A Pulitzer-Winning Photographer's Suicide
News & Notes, March 2, 2006 · Farai Chideya talks to Dan Krauss, the director of The Death of Kevin Carter, an Oscar-nominated documentary about the life, work and suicide of a Pulitzer-prize winning South African photojournalist.
Carter's winning photo shows a heart-breaking scene of a starving child collapsed on the ground, struggling to get to a food center during a famine in the Sudan in 1993.
Carter was part of a group of four fearless photojournalists known as the "Bang Bang Club" who traveled throughout South Africa capturing the atrocities committed during apartheid.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5241442   (223 words)

  
 JS Online:
Kevin Carter was on the other line when Beth called again after several attempts.
She had gotten word that Kevin was alright but until she saw him, she couldn't believe it.
Kevin and Beth Carter don't know when the work will start up at Falk again or how much they should spend this Christmas.
www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=540361   (1908 words)

  
 MobyGames - Kevin Carter
Just out of High School Kevin Carter started in the QA department of Square Soft which soon after became Square Enix.
Kevin then moved to Electronic Arts where he worked on Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, as a part of the Multiplayer QA team.
Right before MOHPA shipped Kevin moved to Blizzard and became one of roughly forty Game Master's hired to police the mean streets of the World of Warcraft.
www.mobygames.com /developer/sheet/bio/developerId,108177   (222 words)

  
 Scout.com: Minicamp Q&A: Kevin Carter
Veteran defensive lineman Kevin Carter addressed the media following the first practice of minicamp and touched on a variety of subjects, including the defensive system and his thoughts on second-year player Manuel Wright.
Carter: "We’ve got to be able to transition from a 3-4 to a 4-3 smoothly, without any hitches, without any setbacks.
Carter: “As long as the communication is there, it isn’t just Zach.
dolphins.scout.com /2/538426.html   (660 words)

  
 Kevin Carter & F*ck Buttons - MZD Forums
I was reading a book about Kevin Carter called "The bang bang club".
While there is practically nothing a photographer can do directly about a situation like the one in Soedan (where Carter photographed the dying child) his photo's do something indirectly.
anyway...umm...what has this carter fellow done..im not sure was he an author or a photographer...and its an interesting theroy about a connection..because of a suicide and an earlier theory of the
www.houseofleaves.com /forum/showthread.php?t=2138   (933 words)

  
 Official Site of the Tennessee Titans
In 2003, he was selected as the Tennessee Titans Community Man of the Year for the second consecutive year for his involvement in the Nashville community and surrounding areas.  He also was voted by his teammates as the recipient for the 2003 Ed Block Courage Award.
•  Carter dedicated last season to his late mother, Virginia, who passed away in June 2003 after battling sickle cell anemia.  In her honor, Carter began the “Sacks for Sickle Cell Anemia” program, in which he donates $500 for every sack to the American Sickle Cell Anemia Association (ascaa.org).
•  In 2003, renewed the Kevin Carter Football Endowment at the University of Florida, a commitment he began in 1998 to provide scholarships to student athletes at his alma mater.
www.titansonline.com /team/players/bio.php?PRKey=14   (1765 words)

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