i remembered my eng teacher told us about this story. but she dint show us the photo of it.
years past n i heard it few weeks back again. these few days i wonder y i kept thinking abt it.
This photo was taken during the Sudan famine in 1994. It won South African photojournalist Kevin Carter the Pulitzer prize, a prestigious award in photography. Captured in the photo are a child crawling towards a UN food camp few kms away and a vulture waiting for the child to die, so that it can eat her. Whether the child survived is not known to anyone, including the photographer who fled the place the minute the picture was taken. It is learnt that he later revealed to friends that he wished he had saved the child. Even though these journalists were warned not to touch the famine victims for the fear of contracting diseases, Carter himself felt afterwards that he could and should have done something more humanitarian. Three months after winning the Pulitzer prize, he committed suicide.
Just wanna share.
1:10 AM
Sunday, July 26, 2009