Greg Sebastian Marinovich (born 1962) is an award-winning South African

South Africa

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 photojournalist

Photojournalism

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, film maker, photo editor, and member of the Bang-Bang Club

Bang-Bang Club

The Bang Bang Club was a name primarily associated with four photographers active within the townships of South Africa during the Apartheid period, particularly between 1990 and 1994, from when Nelson Mandela was released from jail to the 1994 elections...

. He co-authored the book The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War

The Bang-Bang Club (book)

The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War is an auto-biographical book about the Bang-Bang Club, a group of four South African photographers active within the townships of South Africa during the Apartheid period, particularly between 1990 and 1994....

, which details South Africa's transition to democracy

Democracy

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. In the 1990s, Marinovich worked as the chief photographer in Israel

Israel

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 and Palestine

Palestine

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 for the Associated Press

Associated Press

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. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography

Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography

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 in 1991 for his coverage of African National Congress

African National Congress

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 supporters brutally murdering a man they believed to be an Inkatha

Inkatha Freedom Party

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 spy. He has also received a Leica Award and a Visa d'Or.