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Photojournalism. (possibly distressing picture warning)

  • 13-02-2005 2:59pm
    #1
    swiss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭


    During a wikipedia trawl, I came across the story of Kevin Carter, a photojournalist who won a pulitzer in photojournalism in 1994 for a picture he had taken in Sudan.

    The picture featured a starving sudanese girl being stalked by a vulture. I have linked to the picture below, but be warned, it may be distressing to some viewers.

    The image is as follows:

    wanting_a_meal.jpg

    Kevin was criticised heavily for taking this picture, most of the criticism directed towards the fact that he decided to take a picture instead of helping the featured girl. His work affected him badly, due to the harrowing nature of his work. He died the same year due to carbon monoxide poisoning, in an apparant suicide.

    I thought I'd share this picture, I certainly found it thought provoking.


Comments

  • #2
    DadaKopf
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    Then the Manic Street Preachers wrote a song about him.


  • #3
    Shrimp
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    That is a very unusual picture, this is the first time I've even seen it. The sinister vulture, barren landscape and famished child completly symbolizes the severe hunger and starvation which was cursed upon Sudan during the wide stretching famine.


  • #4
    pwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    the title of the pic is "wanting a meal".
    It's horrifying.
    Unless they contributed heavily to foreign aid, criticising that photgrapher was massively hypocritical. I would think that the critics didn't do that. If they were offended at being faced with unpleasant reality it was probably because they prefered to ignore it.
    It requires an effort on my part to perceive that poor wretched thing as human. Unfortunately the people who require the most help inspire revulsion more often than compassion.


  • #5
    Merrion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,423 ✭✭✭Merrion


    I got a book with the story behind all of the pullitzer prize winning photos of the last century (can't remember it's name, unfortunately...will look it up) and I thoroughly recommend it to anyone with an interest in photography.
    The story with this photo includes the fact that the photograph was taken very near an aid station and the photographer carried the child to it after the photo was taken. There are more shocking photos than that in the book but none more powerful (IMO).


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