Photographer: Kevin Carter
Source: Wikipedia.org
The photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine.
The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.
The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who
left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.
Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.
This is one of the most powerful images I have ever seen. It stirs so many emotions that you can't even begin to describe what your feeling, from the anger and deep sadness to the inspirations to get up and help. In one image Kevin Carter moved the world to take notice of horrible event that could have gone un-notice without this image. People debate wether it is moral to take a photo and of such a terrible image of human suffering, people think how could the photographer take the time to take the photo instead of helping the child. In the end this image can help the child and some many others that it has to be done. I believe that photo-journalist witness so many horrible things, it can eat away at them , along with the moral decisions of whould and shouldn't take a photo of. Photojournalist should be honored more for what they do, it is a very difficult job and in the end by Kevin Carter taking the time to take this photo he helped more than just one child.
