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The Vulture And The Starving Child: Themost Iconic Photograph Of The Century by engrezebuiro: 7:44am On Oct 06, 2013 |
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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Re: The Vulture And The Starving Child: Themost Iconic Photograph Of The Century by donigspain(m): 8:05am On Oct 06, 2013 |
Very touching. |
Re: The Vulture And The Starving Child: Themost Iconic Photograph Of The Century by Chartey(m): 7:38pm On Oct 06, 2013 |
The film 'Bang Bang Club' was based on this story. I could only imagine how that would have haunted him. Even taking the child to the plane may not have guaranteed her survival. |
Re: The Vulture And The Starving Child: Themost Iconic Photograph Of The Century by Fulaman198(m): 8:06pm On Oct 06, 2013 |
Wow, God willing I hope that child survived. Today that child would be around the age of a lot of us on this forum. |
Re: The Vulture And The Starving Child: Themost Iconic Photograph Of The Century by Nobody: 5:25pm On Oct 08, 2013 |
Very haunting. |
Re: The Vulture And The Starving Child: Themost Iconic Photograph Of The Century by PAGAN9JA(m): 6:44pm On Oct 08, 2013 |
wow |
Re: The Vulture And The Starving Child: Themost Iconic Photograph Of The Century by Redoil: 7:59pm On Oct 08, 2013 |
Life is full of sadness |
Re: The Vulture And The Starving Child: Themost Iconic Photograph Of The Century by Fulaman198(m): 8:29pm On Oct 08, 2013 |
Redoil: Life is full of sadness It is, but it is also full of happy times. There will always be tears and smiles but while we are alive we should cherish every day and thank God and always try to be in the right of mind. Treat others with as much love as you can. 1 Like |
Re: The Vulture And The Starving Child: Themost Iconic Photograph Of The Century by Nobody: 8:32pm On Oct 08, 2013 |
what a heartbreaking yet touching story. |
Re: The Vulture And The Starving Child: Themost Iconic Photograph Of The Century by Nobody: 8:33pm On Oct 08, 2013 |
Fulaman198: ^^^ |
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