Tag: Ken Oosterbroek

The Deadly Prelude to South Africa’s First Free Elections – The New York Times

The Deadly Prelude to South Africa’s First Free Elections

The vote in 1994 was a time of hope — but in the weeks before, the country came close to the abyss. A photographer remembers what he witnessed.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/world/africa/violence-south-africa-1994-elections.html

To my left lay Ken Oosterbroek, mortally wounded, while to my right, Greg Marinovich clutched at his chest, holding on for dear life. Friends and fellow photographers who had dedicated their careers to documenting the violent, dying throes of apartheid lay dead and wounded.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/world/africa/violence-south-africa-1994-elections.html

May 29, 2024
Twenty Years After Apartheid

Twenty Years After Apartheid

Joao Silva came of age as a photographer as his native South Africa was navigating a treacherous path to democracy. Twenty years later, he reflects on what has — and has not — changed.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/twenty-years-after-apartheid/

In a sprawling South African township stands a tall slab of polished stone etched with names of people killed in the political violence preceding the country’s first democratic elections. It is dedicated to those from Tokoza, where almost 1,000 people died violently some 20 years ago, and sits on Khumalo Street, the very road where many died.

Lost among the scores of the memorialized are my friends Ken Oosterbroek and Abdul Shariff.

January 10, 2020
The Bang Bang Club – Movie Trailers – iTunes

The Bang Bang Club – Movie Trailers – iTunes

The Bang Bang Club is the real life story of a group of four young combat photographers – Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Kevin Carter and Ken Oosterbroek – bonded by friendship and their sense of purpose to tell the truth. They risked their lives and used t

Link: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/thebangbangclub/

The Bang Bang Club is the real life story of a group of four young combat photographers – Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Kevin Carter and Ken Oosterbroek – bonded by friendship and their sense of purpose to tell the truth. They risked their lives and used their camera lenses to tell the world of the brutality and violence associated with the first free elections in post Apartheid South Africa in the early 90s. This intense political period brought out their best work (two won Pulitzers during the period) but cost them a heavy price. Based on the book of the same name by Marinovich and Silva, the film stars Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman and Taylor Kitsch and explores the thrill, danger and moral questions associated with exposing the truth.

March 22, 2011
Showcase: The Bang Bang Club (Part 1 of 2)

Showcase: The Bang Bang Club (Part 1 of 2) – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

Though legendary in photojournalism circles, the Bang Bang Club never formally existed. It was really more of a bond among four young photographers — Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva — united by their ideals, their photography and the historical events unfolding in South Africa in the 1990s.

August 20, 2009