Ovie Carter | |
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| Born | (1946-03-11)March 11, 1946 (age 79) Indianola, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Education | St. Louis Community College–Forest Park Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Years active | 1969–2004 |
| Employer | Chicago Tribune |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1975) |
Ovie Carter (born March 11, 1946) was an American photographer for theChicago Tribune from 1969 to 2004. He won thePulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his coverage of famine inAfrica andIndia together with a reporterWilliam Mullen.[1][2]
Ovie Carter was born and raised inIndianola,Mississippi. After graduating fromForest Park College in 1966 he had been serving for a year in theUS Air Force. Then he continued his studies at the School of Photography atIllinois Institute of Art inChicago.
Ovie Carter began his career in 1969 after being hired by theChicago Tribune as a laboratory assistant. He was promoted to the photographer four months later. His photo reports covered mostly living in poor urban areas. He was the first photojournalist of 'Chicago Tribune who started to represent his work asphoto-narration. For example, one of his first publications was a photo essay on drug addiction in 1970.[1][2][3][4]
In 1973, Carter and three other African American photojournalists, Bob Black, Howard Simmons, andJohn White, taught photography at theSouth Side Community Art Center in Chicago, where they also mounted an exhibit entitled "Through the Eyes of Blackness." This exhibit was brought back fifty years later and opened on September 16, 2023 at the same location.[5]
In 1974, Ovie Carter and William Mullen set off on a 10,000 miles journey acrossAfrica andIndia to report about local famine. They created the five-part series "The Face of Hunger" and were awarded thePulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1975. Also, Carter won the top prize in theWorld Press Photo Contest. During his career Carter was also named Photographer of the Year by the Illinois Press Photographers Association;Overseas Press Club Award laureate; Chicago Tribune's Edward Scott Beck Award laureate and Excellence Award for photography laureate by theNational Association of Black Journalists.[1][2][3][4]
In 1992, Ovie Carter and sociologistMitchell Duneier published the bookSlim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity. Eight years later, they published theSidewalk. In 2004 the photographer was retired.[4]
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