[K9Grip]

I'd never be able to walk away and you could never ask me to either.

[nofuckinway]

ugh, so sick.

[mrsandman187]

Originally Posted by gatagato ↗

A well-nourished Sudanese man steals maize from a starving child during food distribution at a medecins sans frontieres feeding centre, Ajiep, Sudan, in 1998

Famine in Sudan by tom-stoddart
Photo Analysis – Starving Child in Sudan
http://www.imaging-famine.org/sudan/...ery1_sudan.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Sudan_famine

i would happily beat that mans ass to the point of near death and give the sack of maize back to the kid. shit, i would make him a meal/s if i could.

[mrsandman187]

Originally Posted by blue.beard ↗

Whatever happened to the Jewish/Christian/Muslim beliefs about being charitable to those more unfortunate than you...

you think they live by that creed? LOL

[Elarairah]

wonder if the person who took the picture did anything....

[Space Particle]

[gatagato]

Originally Posted by Elarairah ↗

wonder if the person who took the picture did anything....

He did nothing, but as direct result of the publication of this (and others) photo, more than £100,000 was given to Médecins Sans Frontières

The most famous picture from this harrowing photo-essay showed a skeletal boy who had waited for hours to receive the very limited supplies of aid available ‘The boy was crawling along the ground with a bag of maize and I was making pictures of the scene,’ Stoddart told me in 2009. ‘Suddenly a guy walked past me and picked up the maize and left very quickly.’ Stoddart’s photograph records the exhausted boy’s expression as he looks towards the relatively wealthy, well-dressed and well-fed man striding away with his food. As well as recording an actual incident as it happened, the picture also works on another level. ‘From my point of view,’ continued Stoddart, ‘it’s a symbolic image of Africa as it shows a man with a stick keeping everyone else down. The picture works because of several components – the man’s finger pointing down on the stick, the fact that you can see the maize through the bag and the completely disdainful expression on the boy’s face.’

Stoddart returned to England with around 40 rolls of film and showed a selection of the resulting images to Eamonn McCabe, The Guardian’s picture editor at the time. The paper published a selection of the images on 12 August 1998, with one displayed prominently on the front page. At Stoddart’s request, the text included a phone number by which people could donate to Médecins Sans Frontières. As a direct result of people seeing these images, more than £100,000 was given to the charity.

Stoddart (the photographer) said he received some criticism from people who believed he should have intervened in the incident by taking the bag of maize from the man and returning it to the boy.

‘Photographers in this situation are faced with this kind of dilemma all the time,’ he says. ‘The picture shows something that happens every second in Africa and other Third World countries. My job is to bring back telling images. This one moved people and still does, so I did what I was there to do. I’m very proud of my work from Sudan.’

[dcaccount22]

photographers arnt supposed to interfere with nature

[shahril]

Originally Posted by Yvesrow1 ↗

yes, very , thats why most of em' join rebel forces, at least they get fed once in a while

it's true, while most of people themselves while other is being force to join rebel..

[Catsratz]

Creeps me out even worse than photos of Auschwitz survivors.