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.

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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

Eyaa

Touchin. No wonder I h8 these creatures. See wat war does to innocent children.

in his last words

"the pain in life overrides the joy in it etc"

Whites and foolishness

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.

life!