bonocrazy88
New Yorker
I don't know if anyone has heard this story, but it is heartbreaking. A South African photojournalist, Kevin Carter, traveled to Sudan to photograph the local rebellion movement. He began to take photos of the starving Sudanese to document how horrible conditions were. Then, he heard wimpering and looked over. A little girl had stopped on her way to a feeding center. She was so weak she could not crawl any farther. Almost directly behind her, a vulture sat, presumably waiting for the girl to die. Carter said he waited to see if the vulture would spread his wings. When it didn't, Carter snapped a photo, chased the vulture away, and left.
Carter came under severe criticism for not helping the little girl, so close to the feeding center. When the photo surfaced in the New York Times, many people wrote to inquire whether the girl had survived. She had been able to walk away from the vulture, but her fate after that is unknown.
Carter won the Pultizer Prize for Feature Photography in 1994. Although journalists at that time had been warned not to touch disease victims for fear of contracting disease, Carter could not forget the little girl and felt extreme guilt for not helping the child to safety. Because of his guilt and other factors, Carter committed suicide shortly after he won the Pultizer. He was only 33 years old.
Here is a link to the heartwrenching photo.
http://www.cincyworldcinema.org/press/carter2_545x588x300dpi.jpg
Carter came under severe criticism for not helping the little girl, so close to the feeding center. When the photo surfaced in the New York Times, many people wrote to inquire whether the girl had survived. She had been able to walk away from the vulture, but her fate after that is unknown.
Carter won the Pultizer Prize for Feature Photography in 1994. Although journalists at that time had been warned not to touch disease victims for fear of contracting disease, Carter could not forget the little girl and felt extreme guilt for not helping the child to safety. Because of his guilt and other factors, Carter committed suicide shortly after he won the Pultizer. He was only 33 years old.
Here is a link to the heartwrenching photo.
http://www.cincyworldcinema.org/press/carter2_545x588x300dpi.jpg