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Three Months After Snapping This Photo He Committed Suicide by MVLOX(m): 11:34pm On Mar 20, 2015 |
Three months after snapping this photo he committed suicide. The story of Kevin Carter( The Consequences of Photojournalism ) In 1994, South African photojournalist Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer prize for his disturbing photograph of a Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture (left). That same year, Kevin Carter committed suicide. Without the facts surrounding his death, this behavior may seem surprising. But Carter received heaps of criticism for his actions. While in Sudan, near the village of Ayod, Carter found a small, emaciated toddler struggling to make her way to the food station. When she stopped to rest, a vulture landed nearby with his eyes on the little girl. Carter took twenty minutes to take the photo, wanting the best shot possible, before chasing the bird away. The photo was published in The New York Times in March of 1993, and sparked a wide reaction. People wanted to know what happened the child, and if Carter had assisted her. The Times issued a statement saying that the girl was able to make it to the food station, but beyond that no one knows what happened to her. Because of this, Carter was bombarded with questions about why he did not help the girl, and only used her to take a photograph. The St. Petersburg Times in Florida said this of Carter: "The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene." Filmmaker Dan Krauss said, "In his famous picture of the vulture stalking the Sudanese girl, I began to see the embodiment of his troubled psyche. I believe Kevin did, too. In the starving child, he saw Africa's suffering; in the preying vulture, he saw his own face." Carter's daughter Megan responded to such comparisons with, "I see my dad as the suffering child. And the rest of the world is the vulture." However, Carter was working in a time when photojournalists were told not to touch famine victims for fear of spreading disease. Carter estimated that there were twenty people per hour dying at the food center. The child was not unique. Regardless, Carter often expressed regret that he had not done anything to help the girl, even though there was not much that he could have done, in all actuality. http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/photography/articles/2845/title/kevin-carter-consequences-photojournalism
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Re: Three Months After Snapping This Photo He Committed Suicide by shaddi(m): 11:45pm On Mar 20, 2015 |
White guy's kill them selves over issues that can be addressed..... Just like the story of a white kid who came back from school and found no butter in the fridge, He killed himself over that.... While a typical naija guy still dey hope after 20 days of no food. Back to the matter ; Sai APC Sai Buhari Sai Change |
Re: Three Months After Snapping This Photo He Committed Suicide by humphreyjay(m): 11:45pm On Mar 20, 2015 |
Eyaa |
Re: Three Months After Snapping This Photo He Committed Suicide by Lilyomi(f): 2:48am On Mar 21, 2015 |
Touchin. No wonder I h8 these creatures. See wat war does to innocent children. |
Re: Three Months After Snapping This Photo He Committed Suicide by kekakuz(m): 6:10am On Mar 21, 2015 |
in his last words "the pain in life overrides the joy in it etc" |
Re: Three Months After Snapping This Photo He Committed Suicide by bisi16(m): 6:10am On Mar 21, 2015 |
Whites and foolishness |
Re: Three Months After Snapping This Photo He Committed Suicide by MizEmpress(f): 7:50am On Mar 21, 2015 |
first time i read about this a few years ago, i was so touched that i cried a bit, i still am. #saddened. this is Africa, my Africa. |
Re: Three Months After Snapping This Photo He Committed Suicide by corisande: 5:27pm On Mar 21, 2015 |
life! |
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