Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Photographer kills himself because of a photograph


This is a photograph taken by a South African photojournalist, Kevin Carter. It was taken in 1993 and is of a little girl starving to death as she tried to crawl towards the food center less than a mile away. The vulture was waiting for her to die.
Carter took this photograph and left to continue on his work assignment.

He later won the Pulitzer Price in 1994 and two months later, committed suicide due to depression.
This is one of these things that make me think. After taking a photograph such as this one, would you want to intervene? If taking photographs of the harsh truth is your way to make a better world, then why not help the people you are photographing?