South Africa's Bang-Bang Club

Interesting story on the BBC World Service this morning about The Bang-Bang Club, a team of four photographers who documented the conflict in South Africa between 1990 and 1994. Frequently shot and wounded for their troubles (one of them fatally) these brave people risked everything because they thought it was important to tell the story in pictures. Eventually, as we know, apartheid came to an end and Nelson Mandela won the 1994 elections. The interview was especially interesting because of the involvement the photographer felt with the subjects of his pictures. He described feeling a sense of relief when he was shot because now he was like the poor people he was photographing. A book, a film and an academy-award nominated documentary have been made about these men. Follow this link for more.