your impression of Kevin Carter's photo. . .?
He/his photo won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1994. . . .
It was the photo of a Sudanese girl on the ground, basically starving to death, with the vulture in the background. He committed suicide a few months after.
But my questions are, what do you think of this photo? and what do you think of the photojournalist Kevin Carter?
Link of the photo. ..
http://underfire.eyebeam.org/files/images/hungry%20child_1.gif
Pulitzer Prize website
http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1994
TIME Mag's article on Kevin Carter's life
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981431,00.html
One of the reasons he didn't pick her up, from what I read, is because the girl could have had some sort of disease. and he was told not to touch anybody who was ill, he was only there to cover the situation sudan.
It is a brilliant photo in that it absolutely portrays the misery of what was happening in the Sudan
MJ.
He did not help because of the situation he and his colleague were in
Jao Silva was with Carter in the sudan.
He says
" they (Carter and Silva) went to Sudan with the United Nations aboard Operation Lifeline Sudan and landed in Southern Sudan on March 11, 1993. The UN told them that they would take off again in 30 minutes (the time necessary to distribute food), so they ran around looking to take shots. The UN started to distribute corn and the women of the village came out of their wooden huts to meet the plane. Silva went looking for guerrilla fighters, while Carter strayed no more than a few dozen feet from the plane.
Again according to Silva, Carter was quite shocked as it was the first time that he had seen a famine situation and so he took many shots of the children suffering from famine. Silva also started to take photos of children on the ground as if crying, which were not published. The parents of the children were busy taking food from the plane so they had left their children only briefly while they collected the food. This was the situation for the girl in the photo taken by Carter. A vulture landed behind the girl. To get the two in focus, Carter approached the scene very slowly so as not to scare the vulture away and took a photo from approximately 10 metres. He took a few more photos and then the vulture flew off."
So it was not a case of taking her where she was trying to get to, it was simply the fact she was put there by her parents whilst they got food.
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