Greg Marinovich, born in South Africa in 1962, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and is co-author of The Bang Bang Club, a non-fiction book and film on South Africa’s transition to democracy.
He has spent 18 years doing conflict, documentary and news photography around the globe. His photographs have appeared in top international publications such as Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian of London, among others. He is chair of the World Press master Class nominating committee for Africa, and was a World Press Photo judge in 1994, as well as convenor of the FujiFilm awards in 2000.
For the last decade he has been photographing, making films and writing as a freelancer. He has done a lot of teaching and mentoring and is presently involved in a storytelling multi-media across Africa. He is the initiator of the Open Society photography project.