The death of Kevin Carter and one indelible image
Look at the picture that accompanies this article.
It’s not possible to convey the emotional impact of the photo in words.
The picture can be described: An emaciated child huddles on the ground, seemingly wracked by despair as well as starvation. A vulture lurks just a few feet away, by all appearances waiting for the child to die.
The response this photograph created when it was first published in 1993 was enormous. It not only ignited efforts to send aid to the famine-stricken Sudan, where the photo was taken, but won its photographer, South African Kevin Carter, the Pulitzer Prize the next year.
posted by EAPrez @ 7:49 PM
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2 Comments:
"It’s not possible to convey the emotional impact of the photo in words."
Right you are.
I remember that picture well and it hurts every time I see it. And like you say, it hurts in a way that you can't put into words.
Its just unbelievable that this planet's population (humanity), with all of our resources, can let this go on. And it does every day.
this picture makes me cry. while we are busy doing this to the middle east- folks in other parts of the world are dying horrible, slow deaths that could be prevented. makes me sick.
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