Greg Marinovich

Artist Name:	Greg Marinovich
Nationality:	South African
Year of birth:	1962
Artist information:	Greg Marinovich was born in 1962 in Springs, Johannesburg. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative photojournalist and co-author of The Bang Bang Club (2000) with João Silva, a nonfiction book on South Africa’s transition to democracy that took readers beyond the photographs, giving context to that tumultuous time as well as many personal stories of those involved, and has been translated into six languages and made into a feature film. He also authored Murder at Small Koppie:The real story of the Marikana Massacre (2016), based on his investigations into the Marikana massacre of miners by police on 16 August 2012, which was awarded the Alan Paton prize for non-fiction in 2017. Marinovich distinguished himself by photographing the fatal conflicts that preceded the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1991 for a series of photographs of African National Congress supporters murdering a man they suspected of being an Inkatha Freedom Party spy. He spent 25 years covering conflict around the globe, with his writing and photographs appearing in magazines and newspapers worldwide. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Nat Nakasa award for courageous journalism and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 2013/2014. His images are in the permanent collections of MoMA, San Francisco, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Constitutional Court Art Collection, Johannesburg, as well as various private collections around the world. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Twenty Ten project, tutoring and managing over 100 African journalists’ work in all forms of media. He became associate editor for the Daily Maverick, taught visual journalism and filmmaking at Boston University’s School of Journalism and Film and Television, and taught photography at the Harvard Extension School. Sources: https://www.bu.edu/com/profile/greg-marinovich/ [Accessed 30 August 2024] https://www.straussart.co.za/artists/greg-marinovich [Accessed 30 August 2024] https://marinovichphotoworkshop.com/greg-marinovich [Accessed 30 August 2024]