Disturbing picture... do you remember seeing this?

[imported_Tomato]

Picture.

Does anyone remember this photo? It was taken by Kevin Carter and won the 1994 Pullitzer Prize. The picture was was taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine... it depicts a famine-stricken child crawling towards a United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat her.

No one knows what happened to the child.

Kevin killed himself three months later, due to depression.

Brief bio on the photographer.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

:-X

 

[meltdown75]

first time seeing it

 

[Czar]

 

[FFactory0x]

damn. You would have thought the dude would have helped the kid too

 

[Jpark]

Originally posted by: meltdown75


first time seeing it

 

[godmare]

Originally posted by: FFactory0x
damn. You would have thought the dude would have helped the kid too

there was a bmw film that touched on that topic. lemme look for the link...

 

[godmare]

powder keg.

 

[FFactory0x]

i have that dvd
never watchedit

 

[godmare]

they're all good, imo.

 

[SchrodingersDog]

That picture sucks. Makes me want to let my one year old daughter skip lunch and send her sandwich overseas. There always has been plenty of nastyness in Africa, and it'll be a long time till any real fixes are made.

 

[godmare]

I think basically it boils down to being a journalist- merely reporting the events and not interfering with what's happening.

 

[RossMAN]

Work safe?

 

[pyonir]

Way to leave your 7 year old daughter with no father.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: Czar

 

[vood0g]

Originally posted by: FFactory0x
damn. You would have thought the dude would have helped the kid too

he didnt help the kid? damn, what an ass...

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Work safe?

Yesh.

side note: Did anyone see Oprah yesterday? My wife had it on and I sat down to watch a bit. Is there any end to the amount of tragedies and outrage in the world today? Does anyone else ever feel overwhelmed by the apparent imbalance between rich & poor nations, or the fortunate compared to those in dire need? Frickin' world.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: godmare
I think basically it boils down to being a journalist- merely reporting the events and not interfering with what's happening.

I agree with you, and know that is one of a journalists "vows" or whatever you want to call it, but sometimes, it just isn't possible. You have to interfere.

 

[jjones]

No, I don't remember seeing that photo, or ever hearing about the photographer.

 

[43st]

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: godmare
I think basically it boils down to being a journalist- merely reporting the events and not interfering with what's happening.

I agree with you, and know that is one of a journalists "vows" or whatever you want to call it, but sometimes, it just isn't possible. You have to interfere.

Also consider the hundreds, if not thousands, of other children that weren't shown in that picture but were in the same situation. There's only so much one person can do in situations like that.

Still very sad that suffering like this has to exist in the modern world.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: pyonir
Way to leave your 7 year old daughter with no father.

That was my thought as well.

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: godmare
I think basically it boils down to being a journalist- merely reporting the events and not interfering with what's happening.

I think that's why he did himself. I have a subscription to the french magazine, Photo. It usually comes a few weeks later than my other mags because i suspect someone in the post office is looking at the nudes. But anyway...

One issue had a large pictorial of mining towns in Russia and how bad they are. It was rough seeing drunks and peopel barely alive and still working. But the picture that broke my heart (and still makes me sad thinking about it) is the pictures of two kids sitting on a bed, somewhat clothed, in an unheated house, waiting for their parents to bring them something to eat. But in the previous pics, you see their parents drinking away the money that was supposed to buy food. The kids faces, God, I have never seen such despair, on someone so young (3 yr old and a 9 yr old).

Photo journalists have a rough life. Can you help the individual and save them at that moment, or can you capture the moment on film and perhaps save that individual's community by drawing worldwide attention with your photo? I wouldn't have the stamina for it, I know that.

 

[azncoffeeboi]

anybody have a higher res shot?

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: FFactory0x
damn. You would have thought the dude would have helped the kid too

Someone that far gone? You can't just hand them a cheeseburger and then they'll be OK; they need medical attention.

Besides, there is no reason to believe he did not help the child after he snapped the picture. After snapping the legendary picture of Kim Phuc fleeing naked from a napalm attack in Vietnam, photographer Nick Ut personally found a way to get her to a hospital and did not even worry about getting his film back to the AP until he was sure she would be treated.
Good Article on Nick Ut

Journalists often do what they can to help.

 

[xXped0thugXx]

Originally posted by: meltdown75


first time seeing it