Image of the Year Award

[SandEagle]

World Press chose this as image of the year:

i have to agree. how often do you catch a ninja on camera finishing off its victim? :thumbsup:

 

[ConwayJim]

it's fun poking fun at tragedy

 

[Zeze]

Nothing will ever beat this picture as the most powerful:

The photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine. The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

 

[SandEagle]

Nothing will ever beat this picture as the most powerful:

The photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine. The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

this pic has haunted me for years. very powerful. i read the photographer committed suicide.

 

[Saint Nick]

Nothing will ever beat this picture as the most powerful:

The photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine. The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

I think that I would have to agree.

Kevin Carter, the South African photographer whose image of a starving Sudanese toddler stalked by a vulture won him a Pulitzer Prize this year, was found dead on Wednesday night, apparently a suicide, police said yesterday. He was 33. The police said Mr Carter's body and several letters to friends and family were discovered in his pick-up truck, parked in a Johannesburg suburb. An inquest showed that he had died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Mr Carter started as a sports photographer in 1983 but soon moved to the front lines of South African political strife, recording images of repression, anti-apartheid protest and fratricidal violence. A few davs after winning his Pulitzer Prize in April, Mr Carter was nearby when one of his closest friends and professional companions, Ken Oosterbroek, was shot dead photographing a gun battle in Tokoza township.
Friends said Mr Carter was a man of tumultuous emotions which brought passion to his work but also drove him to extremes of elation and depression. Last year, saying he needed a break from South Africa's turmoil, he paid his own way to the southern Sudan to photograph a civil war and famine that he felt the world was overlooking.


His picture of an emaciated girl collapsing on the way to a feeding centre, as a plump vulture lurked in the background, was published first in The New York Times and The Mail & Guardian, a Johannesburg weekly. The reaction to the picture was so strong that The New York Times published an unusual editor's note on the fate of the girl. Mr Carter said she resumed her trek to the feeding centre. He chased away the vulture.


Afterwards, he told an interviewer, he sat under a tree for a long time, "smoking cigarettes and crying". His father, Mr Jimmy Carter laid last night: "Kevin always carried around the horror of the work he did."

http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/ultimate_in_unfair.htm

 

[BladeVenom]

You want to see the best photos of the year, check out the babe thread.

 

[Markbnj]

Nothing will ever beat this picture as the most powerful:

The photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine. The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

I've seen this picture for years, but I don't know anything about the back story beyond the larger geopolitical picture. I hope that right after snapping the photo, the photographer picked that child up and carried him or her to the UN camp. The delay necessary to take the photo can be forgiven on the grounds that the story needed to be told, but only if it was a very short delay.

Edit: read the next message down... the child "resumed her trek" to the camp and the photog chased the vulture away and then sat under a tree smoking and crying... man, I don't even know what to say. I guess I would have to be a journalist in that situation to understand.

 

[Wyndru]

I've seen this picture for years, but I don't know anything about the back story beyond the larger geopolitical picture. I hope that right after snapping the photo, the photographer picked that child up and carried him or her to the UN camp. The delay necessary to take the photo can be forgiven on the grounds that the story needed to be told, but only if it was a very short delay.

Edit: read the next message down... the child "resumed her trek" to the camp and the photog chased the vulture away and then sat under a tree smoking and crying... man, I don't even know what to say. I guess I would have to be a journalist in that situation to understand.

I figure that the famine was so widespread, he couldn't just grab 1 child and help. He was there to document, not interfere. It's probably why he was so depressed. It's really sad, I wouldn't be able to do this without trying to help everyone.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

 

[RPD]

Thanks Zeze for making me feel sad.