Cultural Depictions
- A documentary entitled The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club was nominated for an Academy Award in 2006.
- The Welsh band Manic Street Preachers recorded a song about him on their 1996 album Everything Must Go.
- There is a song 'Kevin Carter' on the 1996 album of Martin Simpson and Jessica Ruby Simpson, Band of Angels, which is a mainly factual, minimalist, and informative ballad.
- Poets and Madmen by heavy metal band Savatage is a loose concept-album based on a fictitious investigation of his legacy.
- Mark Danielewski's novel House of Leaves attributes a prize-winning photograph, based on that of Carter, to the novel's protagonist, Will Navidson. Within the confines of the novel, the starving Sudanese child is named Delial by Navidson. The story describes a photo similar to Carter's Pulitzer Prize-winning image, with footnotes directly referring to Carter and his suicide.
- Masha Hamilton's 2004 novel The Distance Between Us mentions Kevin Carter and is dedicated to "Kevin Carter and journalists everywhere who put their bodies and their souls on the line to cover war."
- Chilean born visual artist Alfredo Jaar presented the story of Kevin Carter and his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph in the work The Sound of Silence, a cinematic video installation presented in his Politics of the Image exhibition at the South London Gallery in 2008. The narration goes on to tell about the life of the photograph after the death of its author.
- In 2010, he was played by Taylor Kitsch in the film The Bang-Bang-Club.
- The Canadian indie rock band Blinker the Star mentions Kevin Carter's death in their song "Still in Rome," from the 2003 album of the same name.
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