Monday

the saddening truth.


Starving Child Vulture

One photograph that has helped awaken the world about the effects of poverty in Africa is the one above showing a Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture nearby. It is quite obvious that the child was starving to death, while the vulture was patiently waiting for the toddler to die so he can have a good meal.

Nobody knows what happened to the child, who crawled his way to a United Nations food camp. Photographer Kevin Carter won a Pulitzer Prize for this shocking picture, but he eventually committed suicide three months after he took the shot.


My question is...
Why didn't the photographer help the child at the time of the shot???!?!?!?!
and they say it took him 20minutes to set up to take it!

2 people left me some shugga!:

Anonymous said...

That's not true. If you research the background of the picture, you know the author actually tried to help the kid, but was too late.

Anonymous said...

actually! i did do my research and if you look at the next post "the saddening truth : answers" it explains exactly why the photographer didn't help.