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TIL of Kevin Carter. A member of the Bang-Bang Club, photographers who chronicled apartheid-­era South Africa. He took the “starving child and vulture” pic. He won the Pulitzer for the pic and soon after took his life, writing, “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings, corpses, anger & pain.”

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