The Bang Bang Club is a memoir cum history of these years of struggle. In effect, The Bang Bang Club was the most exclusive clique in photojournalism in South Africa during a time when South Africa was the place to be. Two of them lost their lives in events directly or indirectly related to their work in southern Africa's most visible hot spot. They showed the most drive and displayed the most bravado. They knew the lay of the land and where events were going to take place even before they happened. Although the membership of this club sometimes changed, there were four consistent members: Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Kevin Carter, and Ken Oosterbroek. After a South African lifestyle magazine dubbed this small crew the "Bang Bang Club," a name that referred to their experiences on the front lines where the "bang bang" (i.e. One group in particular gained fame for their swashbuckling, fearless, and profoundly influential photography from the frontlines of apartheid's last stand. As the prospects for change within South Africa became inevitable, the white government and securocrats hoped to divide the masses that supported Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) coalition from the minority who followed Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).Īs with any war, on the scene, but literally behind the camera, were intrepid war reporters who were both part of, and yet separate from, the stories they covered. It tore up the black townships and homelands that had served as the most blatant physical manifestation of the apartheid system. So called "black-on-black" violence was in reality both a direct manifestation of apartheid and a phenomenon fomented by the South African state and its draconian security forces.
South Africa was, for all intents and purposes, a war zone in the period from 1990 to 1994.
The Bang Bang Club: Snapshots From a Hidden War.
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