Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudane famine. the picture depicts a famine stricken child being stalked by a vulture. The child is moving towards a United nations food camp, located a kilometer away.
No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer who left as soon as the photo was taken. He later confided in his friends that he wished he had intervened. Journalists at that time were warned never to touch famine victims for fear of disease.
Three months later, and only weeks after being bestowed with the Pulitzer prize, Kevin Carter comitted suicide.
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We people sitting here can't even pass the pic.We prefer not giving it even a second look.It conduces one to imagine,muse to infinity.
ReplyDeleteThis is just a bit of what we are going through when we dare the scene.If this is what onlookers feel,what must have been the plight of the ones,actually suffering and braving all that!
May Allah Subhanahuwataala have mercy on every one of us.