of film halfway through the incident. Eamonn McCabe of The Guardian said: "It was a picture that made nearly every front page in the world, the one real photograph of the whole campaign." Death On 27 July 1994, Carter drove to Parkmore near the Field and Study Centre, an area where he used to play as a child, and died by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the driver's side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. Portions of Carter's suicide note read: The final line is a reference to his recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek. In popular culture The 1996 song "Kevin Carter" by rock band Manic Street Preachers, from their fourth album Everything Must Go, was inspired by Carter's life and suicide. The lyrics were written by Richey Edwards shortly before his own disappearance. A main character in the book House of Leaves, Will Navidson, is a photojournalist who is tormented by guilt over winning a Pulitzer Prize for photo of a starving Sudanese girl but not helping her. In Footnote 336 it is mentioned that this is "clearly based on Kevin Carter's [...] photograph". The 2001 album Poets and Madmen, by American heavy metal band Savatage, is inspired by the life and death of Kevin Carter. In the 2010 film The Bang Bang Club, Carter was played by Taylor Kitsch. References Bibliography Further reading The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club, HBO documentary. 17 August 2006 External links Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the girl in Sudan 1960 births 1994 deaths Roman Catholic anti-apartheid activists White South African anti-apartheid activists South African people of British descent The New York Times visual journalists People from Johannesburg South African photojournalists Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography winners War photographers South African Roman Catholics South African photographers Suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning Suicides in South Africa Bang-Bang Club 1994 suicides Expatriate photographers in Sudan