Vulture & Child : The sad story of poverty
Many of you have seen this sad real photo, apart from a general clear message which this photo tell us about the terrible inequality and poverty in our planet, the special stroy of taking this photo may be also interesting to know.
The haunting photo of a vulture stalking an emaciated Sudanese girl who'd collapsed on her way to a feeding station won photographer Kevin Carter a Pulitzer Prize in 1994. Carter also become notorious for sticking to the journalistic principle of being an observor and not getting involved -- he left after taking his photo and neither he, nor the New York Times, which first published the photo on 26 March 1993, knew what happened to her. (Looking at the photo, it's hard to imagine a pleasant ending.) A few months later after collecting his Pulitzer, Carter committed suicide, the violence he'd encountered in his life as a journalist, especially in South Africa, becoming too much to live with.
Source: Here and Here.
posted by Mohammad Reza Farzanegan @ 09:09
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