[chris]

Kevin Carter photographed an emaciated child with a vulture nearby near Ayod in southern Sudan in March 1993, during a famine associated with the Second Sudanese Civil War. Carter had arrived on a United Nations relief flight and said the child was struggling toward a feeding center. He waited about 20 minutes in hopes that the bird would spread its wings, took the photograph and then chased the vulture away. Another photographer on the trip later said parents were nearby collecting food and had briefly set their children down.

The photograph was first published on March 26, 1993, and won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. The child was initially described as a girl. In 2011, villagers and the child's father identified him as a boy named Kong Nyong, who survived the famine and died of fevers around 2007. Carter received the Pulitzer in May 1994 and died by suicide on July 27, 1994, at age 33.

[Sharon]

That is one of the most awful images I've seen. Human tragedy and suffering, poor child looks so vulnerable

[the hated]

that was made into one of my favourite de-motivational pics of all time...

[Kehko]

Kevin Carter (September 13, 1960 in Johannesburg – July 27, 1994) was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club.

In March 1993 Carter made a trip to southern Sudan. The sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering near the village of Ayod attracted Carter to a young emaciated Sudanese toddler. The girl had stopped to rest while struggling to a feeding center, wherein a vulture had landed nearby. He said that 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. However, he also came under heavy criticism for just photographing — and not helping — the little 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."[2]

The photograph was sold to The New York Times where it appeared for the first time on March 26, 1993. Practically overnight hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper to run a special editor's note saying the girl had enough strength to walk away from the vulture, but that her ultimate fate was unknown.

On 27 July 1994 Carter drove to the Braamfonteinspruit river, near the Field and Study Centre, an area where he used to play as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. Portions of Carter's suicide note read:

"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky."[3]

Originally Posted by the hated ↗

that was made into one of my favourite de-motivational pics of all time...

what is it? post it!

[güttsfükk]

wonder how old the child was

[bathory313]

"However, he also came under heavy criticism for just photographing — and not helping — the little girl."


"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky."

All I'm going to say is everything you do comes back to you.

[boneyards]

i really dislike that picture :(

[firedog25]

So tell Amnesty International and the U.N. to get off their asses and do something there. Shit like that happens on a daily basis in Africa and everyone turns a blind eye to it. I think that line in Primeval put it best. Something like...

"People don't give a fuck about black on black crime around the corner from their house, what makes you think they give a shit about what happens 3000 miles away in Africa?"

Yet the U.S. is sooooooooooo evil for making some terrorists play naked Twister all the while feeding them 3 square meals a day.

[scalpelxSLUT]

How depressing.

[Msnr. Sonny Sinner]

great pic