Powerful Image *pic*

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Sqube

Originally posted by: EKKC
kinda gay...

You're pitiful in your insecurity.

Long walk. Short bridge.

And you in your oversensitivity.

Yay!

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Sadder picture

Starving child crawling for food, vulture waiting for him to die, typical media person snapping pictures rather than helping the little fellow out.

Hope the Pulitzer is made of heat resistant metal or else it's not doing him any good now.

My mom actually told me the background to that story once. All the photographer did after taking that shot was chase the vulture away. Later, after winning the Pulitzer Prize, the photographer, wracked with guilt at not having saved this child, killed himself.

yes that is true, sad as well, as a documentry photographer or photo jurnalist one of the top principals you have to live by is to not interfear and just observe

Bah, what he did cannot under any circumstances be defended by these "top principles." At times like these a truly good person would know when to completely throw these lowly principles of profession out the fvcking window and let HUMANITY take over. I do not enjoy that he took his own life, but I cannot look past him just leaving the child to die.

I do not pretend to care more than the average person..

BUT AT LEAST HE WAS THERE. What were you doing while this kid starved to death? Jacking your cock? Fvcking brilliant.

He didn't do any less than you..and more kids die each day..as I type this some kid is starving to death...ok?

EXACTLY. HE WAS THERE. AND HE DID NOTHING.

*sigh*

You don't get it. IMO, there is no difference between being there and doing nothing, rather than being here and doing nothing. What was he gonna do, adopt the kid? Pay for his food for the rest of his life?

I agree, this is horrible, that children starve to death like that everyday, but IMO it makes no difference whether he did something for that kid or not. There are thousands of other kids just like that one and who is going to help them>

 

[Platypus]

Sad ignorance is allowed to destroy more lives than drugs ever have.. oh well.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Sadder picture

Starving child crawling for food, vulture waiting for him to die, typical media person snapping pictures rather than helping the little fellow out.

Hope the Pulitzer is made of heat resistant metal or else it's not doing him any good now.

My mom actually told me the background to that story once. All the photographer did after taking that shot was chase the vulture away. Later, after winning the Pulitzer Prize, the photographer, wracked with guilt at not having saved this child, killed himself.

yes that is true, sad as well, as a documentry photographer or photo jurnalist one of the top principals you have to live by is to not interfear and just observe

Bah, what he did cannot under any circumstances be defended by these "top principles." At times like these a truly good person would know when to completely throw these lowly principles of profession out the fvcking window and let HUMANITY take over. I do not enjoy that he took his own life, but I cannot look past him just leaving the child to die.

Exactly, he essentially murdered that child by doing nothing and got a Pulitzer for doing it...

The least he could have done was drop the little fellow off at a relief camp or the nearest village

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Sadder picture

Starving child crawling for food, vulture waiting for him to die, typical media person snapping pictures rather than helping the little fellow out.

Hope the Pulitzer is made of heat resistant metal or else it's not doing him any good now.

My mom actually told me the background to that story once. All the photographer did after taking that shot was chase the vulture away. Later, after winning the Pulitzer Prize, the photographer, wracked with guilt at not having saved this child, killed himself.

yes that is true, sad as well, as a documentry photographer or photo jurnalist one of the top principals you have to live by is to not interfear and just observe

Bah, what he did cannot under any circumstances be defended by these "top principles." At times like these a truly good person would know when to completely throw these lowly principles of profession out the fvcking window and let HUMANITY take over. I do not enjoy that he took his own life, but I cannot look past him just leaving the child to die.

Exactly, he essentially murdered that child by doing nothing and got a Pulitzer for doing it...

The least he could have done was drop the little fellow off at a relief camp or the nearest village

Are you fvcking serious?

Ok...sell your posessions, move to africa, live in a tent, and help these poor children.

You sit infront of your monitor and complain about how a photgrapher didnt keep this african child alive for another week so he could die not long after? There are so many other kids like that one.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: iamtrout

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Sadder picture

Starving child crawling for food, vulture waiting for him to die, typical media person snapping pictures rather than helping the little fellow out.

Hope the Pulitzer is made of heat resistant metal or else it's not doing him any good now.

My mom actually told me the background to that story once. All the photographer did after taking that shot was chase the vulture away. Later, after winning the Pulitzer Prize, the photographer, wracked with guilt at not having saved this child, killed himself.

yes that is true, sad as well, as a documentry photographer or photo jurnalist one of the top principals you have to live by is to not interfear and just observe

Bah, what he did cannot under any circumstances be defended by these "top principles." At times like these a truly good person would know when to completely throw these lowly principles of profession out the fvcking window and let HUMANITY take over. I do not enjoy that he took his own life, but I cannot look past him just leaving the child to die.

Exactly, he essentially murdered that child by doing nothing and got a Pulitzer for doing it...

The least he could have done was drop the little fellow off at a relief camp or the nearest village

This isn't meant to be callous but it's reality, the kid would have probably died a few days later regardless.. in that state.. and even if a shelter had been able to care for him, which they probably couldn't, someone else would have died in his place.

You cannot say he essentially murdered that child by doing nothing.. I don't see you flying to Africa to pick every dying kid off the street. There are more harsh realities than you can possibly imagine playing the armchair humanitan behind your thousand dollar(+) computer. Saying this photographer murdered that child is like saying that every photographer who ever captured real life on screen, real tragedy, is a murderer.. the man who captured the infamous point blank execution, photographs of the holocaust, they're all murderers in your eyes for not doing something?

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: Argo

Originally posted by: Sqube
They're fvcked.

How, exactly, are/were they supposed to be executed? All those guys standing around with rubber gloves implies something... messy.

I believe China employs firing squad.

And bills the family for the bullet.

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Sadder picture

Starving child crawling for food, vulture waiting for him to die, typical media person snapping pictures rather than helping the little fellow out.

Hope the Pulitzer is made of heat resistant metal or else it's not doing him any good now.

That is an amazing picture, but STFU before you condemn the photographer - he commited suicide partly as a result of that picture.

 

[MAME]

grrl, if you bothered to actually read the thread you'd realize that you're about 50 posts too late

 

[BrokenVisage]

Image not as powerful as the guns that'll send them to hell.

 

[narcotic]

That's a healthy debate going on here.
Those images represent a horrible reality which is happening every day.
There is too much hate in this world, its a big shame.
I have nothing smarter to say about that.

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Sadder picture

Starving child crawling for food, vulture waiting for him to die, typical media person snapping pictures rather than helping the little fellow out.

Hope the Pulitzer is made of heat resistant metal or else it's not doing him any good now.

You do realize that that child, at that stage of starvation is pretty much guaranteed to die, whether it gets food or not. Furthermore, how is the journalist supposed to help when he most likely only had enough to care for himself, while that child is almost certainly surrounded by hundreds, if not thousands more dying of starvation?

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: grrl

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Sadder picture

Starving child crawling for food, vulture waiting for him to die, typical media person snapping pictures rather than helping the little fellow out.

Hope the Pulitzer is made of heat resistant metal or else it's not doing him any good now.

That is an amazing picture, but STFU before you condemn the photographer - he commited suicide partly as a result of that picture.

All I can say is good riddance. Anyone that cashes in on the miseries and dieing of others for pride and fame deserve everything ill coming their way.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: grrl

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Sadder picture

Starving child crawling for food, vulture waiting for him to die, typical media person snapping pictures rather than helping the little fellow out.

Hope the Pulitzer is made of heat resistant metal or else it's not doing him any good now.

That is an amazing picture, but STFU before you condemn the photographer - he commited suicide partly as a result of that picture.

All I can say is good riddance. Anyone that cashes in on the miseries and dieing of others for pride and fame deserve everything ill coming their way.

wow you are an even bigger asshole then i previously thought, most PJs and DocU photogs dont do it for the fame or money because 90% of the time there is none, every once in a while while doing what you like, which is taking photos you happen across something like this and it happens to grant you fame, Carter was photographing teh conficts in africa not seeking fame but to get the word out and let people know, just because he happened to take a shot that was made famous does not mean he was hell bent on cashing in on their misery

and the fact that he did kill himself shows the exact oppsite of what you think, if all he wanted to do was cash in he woudl still be alive taking more photos just like that one

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: grrl

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Sadder picture

Starving child crawling for food, vulture waiting for him to die, typical media person snapping pictures rather than helping the little fellow out.

Hope the Pulitzer is made of heat resistant metal or else it's not doing him any good now.

That is an amazing picture, but STFU before you condemn the photographer - he commited suicide partly as a result of that picture.

All I can say is good riddance. Anyone that cashes in on the miseries and dieing of others for pride and fame deserve everything ill coming their way.

Wow.. I don' know where to begin disecting that statement in regards to this topic.. but seriously, who are you to know this guy was out for pride and fame? I always thought of you as knowledgeable on here but I'm by that post and think you're blinded by the sheer sadness of the picture.

 

[Excelsior]

Look everyone, Nitemare is obviously out of his mind.

 

[BrokenVisage]

This little 3-pic sequence always made me a little sad. SFW.

 

[Ronstang]

Boy did this thread get off topic. I am not going to read all the BS about starving kids in Africa but I will comment that the only people to blame for the problem is the populace that continues to have children they cannot raise and provide for in a proper manner. I don't want to hear about how it is not THEIR fault because having children is a right....that is pure liberal crap. If they continue to make babies that only die from lack of care they are lower than animals and don't deserve any help. Wild animals are better at taking care of their offspring than most Africans yet somehow the liberals want to convince everyone that this is somehow OUR problem. If you want to help them that is great and kudos to you but remember you are wasting your time on people that won't even help themselves and there is no way you can change things. Why has Africa made no real advances in the last 2000 years? Think about it. The only modern conveniences they have are the ones people from other countries have brought them.....they make no effort to progress as a society on their own.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: grrl

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Sadder picture

Starving child crawling for food, vulture waiting for him to die, typical media person snapping pictures rather than helping the little fellow out.

Hope the Pulitzer is made of heat resistant metal or else it's not doing him any good now.

That is an amazing picture, but STFU before you condemn the photographer - he commited suicide partly as a result of that picture.

All I can say is good riddance. Anyone that cashes in on the miseries and dieing of others for pride and fame deserve everything ill coming their way.

wow you are an even bigger asshole then i previously thought, most PJs and DocU photogs dont do it for the fame or money because 90% of the time there is none, every once in a while while doing what you like, which is taking photos you happen across something like this and it happens to grant you fame, Carter was photographing teh conficts in africa not seeking fame but to get the word out and let people know, just because he happened to take a shot that was made famous does not mean he was hell bent on cashing in on their misery

and the fact that he did kill himself shows the exact oppsite of what you think, if all he wanted to do was cash in he woudl still be alive taking more photos just like that one

"In a similar vein, the pulitzer for stories of the same year went to a south-african photographer named Kevin Carter. If you've seen the image it's bang-bang in it's highest form. But what has it done for the starving child? Carter said later that he wished he had done something, but the scene was too hard to take and that he sat under a tree and cried. If you know of Kevin Carter, you'll know what became of him."

Sorry, if I am so much of an asshole. I just have 0 respect of anyone that is in a position to help and chooses to do nothing. By his own words he regrets not doing anything.

What human being can watch a little girl on the edge of death crawling and falling repeatedly while snapping away with his camera and then leave her to friggin die.

Yes, I'm an asshole, but I have something that Kevin Carter lacked that day, humanity.

 

[PHiuR]

is it a good pic.

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: cheapgoose
although I do wish we had that here, but not for crimes like selling drugs. I'd much rather see all the rapists and child molesters executed first.

:thumbsup: