[RedneckR0nin]

As a photographer this is my favourite photo of all time. I will tell you the reason why.

The actual act of photography is a capturing and conveying emotion. Whether it be the subjects or the photographers. This photo made me cry the first time I viewed it and that in itself is a overwhelming success in the art of photography. The power of this image is still very very prevalent today and grabs you right where emotion begins.

That being said being a photojournalist is the art of photography with the addition of a statement or condition being stated as well. This photo very much so shouts the condition as being grave and full of despair. This also changed the way photojournalism is conducted today. The way it used to be was it was morally and ethically irresponsible to involve yourself in the story. After he won the Pulitizer he killed himself and in turn the industry revamped it's ethics and rightfully so. So in sense he dies for that image...for that emotion and change to be completed. In my profession...better yet the art that is my life I would consider that a dream to be able to capture a image that would be so powerful that it cost me my life. I can only hope that a opportunity like that presents itself for me in my career.!

[Menalipa]

Fuck the diseases.. I would have helped this baby, no matter what. If I didn't help this child I wouldn't have been able to live with that either.

[RedneckR0nin]

Originally Posted by Menalipa ↗

Fuck the diseases.. I would have helped this baby, no matter what. If I didn't help this child I wouldn't have been able to live with that either.

Well you answered the reasoning why he killed himself. He never helped not out of worry for disease as again it was considered unethical for a photojournalist to involve themselves in the story they were covering. The child was crawling due to malnutrition not disease and still had about 900 yards until the U.N food relief tent!

[northernlights]

Look at that fuckin vulture just sitting right there..............

[Menalipa]

How can we have so many overweight people in America and these little children are starving? I would adopt any of these babies in a snap If I could

[RedneckR0nin]

There is a movie coming out about Kevin Carter and his crew called Big Bang Club...it should be pretty good!

[CuriousTwo]

Originally Posted by Penny89 ↗

my sentiments exactly.
the guy was just showing our lazy asses what's happening out in the world. like cronkite, dan rather, brian williams, and even tom savini has done for over 60 years. they all were just showing how bad things get over there. 99% of the people that have said, (in this thread) that they would carry that child to food, or what have you, no matter if the kid was diseased or not. are lying. i mean, if i had the money for a plane ticket, i would fly there and help as much as i could, for as long as i could before the shit would get too heart breaking for me. but like some of you have said in previous comments, i've got my own problems to worry about.
i hold kevin carter in high regards, because unlike ALL of the people that have called him names, and said he was a bad person, wouldn't have gone to do what kevin had done. to open our eyes to what is going on in this world.

I agree w/your post and the one you quoted.... He was a photographer first and foremost, not a relief worker.... You can't go handing a kid like that a sandwich.... Their digestive system is not working correctly.... You cannot risk contaminating yourself which could put the entire flight crew and workers at risk as well, not to mention the rest of the food on board for other stops.... The child was put down by the mother so she could pick up the food brought by the plane KEVIN came in on.... He was along for the ride and shot the photo.... It was not his place to touch the child.
What idiots some of you are, really.... Google 'starvation in Ethiopia' and hit 'images.' Find all the kids photographed sitting by themselves or laying on the ground dying.... Are ALL those photographers horrible people for not intervening?? @@ The kid didn't get eaten by the vulture, the mother came back.... The tragedy of starvation has gone on since the beginning of time and will always be a reality in shit poor countries of the like.... The real tragedy of this story is this man's suicide.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&b...tarvation+in+e

[warsuron]

Originally Posted by johnleeknoefler ↗

Kevin was a coward. He took the cowards way out. He chose not to help make the world a better place. Notice that he photographed a baby crawling toward food but he refused to give the baby food.

you dont know he didnt give the kid food for fact

[barney@]

That's horrible! Is the Mercedes OK?

[poopie]

mother was going for food.at that time.the person has to be dead for that kind of bird to feed.they only eat dead stuff.