The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War

Greg Marinovich and João Silva 2000

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
war journalism photography South Africa apartheid

Our Take

Four photographers documented the township violence in South Africa's transition years; two died. Marinovich and Silva's account of that work — the cost of bearing witness, the Pulitzers, the colleagues lost — is also an account of what photography does to those who take the photographs. The picture that wins the prize versus the picture that haunts you. These are not always the same.

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