Ovie Carter began his career in 1969 after being hired by the Chicago Tribune as a laboratory assistant.

[1][2][3][4] In 1973, Carter and three other African American photojournalists, Bob Black, Howard Simmons, and John White, taught photography at the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago, where they also mounted an exhibit entitled "Through the Eyes of Blackness."

[5] In 1974, Ovie Carter and William Mullen set off on a 10,000 miles journey across Africa and India to report about local famine.

They created the five-part series "The Face of Hunger" and were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1975.

[1][2][3][4] In 1992, Ovie Carter and sociologist Mitchell Duneier published the book Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity.