In March 1993, photographer Kevin Carter made a
trip to southern Sudan, where he took now iconic
photo of a vulture preying upon an emaciated
Sudanese toddler near the village of Ayod. Carter
said he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the
vulture would spread its wings. It didn’t. Carter
snapped the haunting photograph and chased the
vulture away. (The parents of the girl were busy
taking food from the same UN plane Carter took
to Ayod).
The photograph was sold to The New York
Times where it appeared for the first time on
March 26, 1993 as ‘metaphor for Africa’s despair’.
Practically overnight hundreds of people contacted
the newspaper to ask whether the child had
survived, leading the newspaper to run an unusual
special editor’s note saying the girl had enough
strength to walk away from the vulture, but that
her ultimate fate was unknown. Journalists in the
Sudan were told not to touch the famine victims,
because of the risk of transmitting disease, but
Carter came under criticism for not helping the
girl. ”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,” read
one editorial.
Carter eventually won the Pulitzer Prize for this
photo, but he couldn’t enjoy it. “I’m really, really
sorry I didn’t pick the child up,” he confided in a
friend. Consumed with the violence he’d witnessed,
and haunted by the questions as to the little girl’s
fate, he committed suicide three months later.
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Whoop!
This photo brings back memories. Saw it in Thisday newspaper on my principal's desk back in Junior secondary school. And I never forgot how I cried on getting back to class. Its still haunting now as it was then.
While I dont blame the journalist, I also dont feel sorry for his later end.

and someone thinks nigeria is a bad country

i pray we dont experience twenty pecent of what sudan nigel or somalia is expeiencing

click the like button for amen

Eyah...

Really a touching story...

Thunder fire hunger and famine for this my life so.

For the vulture mind now...

So sad, u guys shud hve seen wat we experienced in kaduna dudring the year 2000 sharia law crisis

spywareczar: So sad, u guys shud hve seen wat we experienced in kaduna dudring the year 2000 sharia law crisis

yeah, i was there, i know what it feels like

Chiidi:

yeah, i was there, i know what it feels like

which part of Kaduna were u during d crisis

The Vulture And The Starving Child.!
**sighs**

prof800: The Vulture And The Starving Child.!
**sighs**

Why are u sighing? Are u normal.