6/11/2023 0 Comments The bang bang club book![]() The township war is history but lessons drawn by these two chroniclers resonate today. Beyond the circle of conflict photographers, their fame has faded, though a feature film based on the book they published in 2000, The Bang-Bang Club, Snapshots from a Hidden War, is planned. Joao Silva is in Baghdad for the New York Times, Greg Marinovich is on a farm in South Africa preparing for a trip to Sierra Leone. A decade later, as the anniversaries of those events approach, it is not difficult to track down the surviving members. ![]() Their deaths were separated by a few weeks in which apartheid fell and South Africa held its first democratic election. The club died, with two of its members, in 1994, Ken Oosterbroek killed by a stray bullet, Kevin Carter by his own hand. ![]() They were not really a club, more colleagues whose jobs and friendships overlapped, but the nickname stuck and they won reputations for courage bordering on recklessness. ![]()
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