This picture, taken by South African photojournalist Kevin Carter in Sudan, shows a girl on her knees,
bent at the waist with her forehead resting on the dirt, till she continues her way to a feeding station.
A vulture nearby is waiting for her to die.
Nobody knows what happened to the child. It is said though, that Carter helped it somehow, by chasing the vulture away.
The famous picture, Carter was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography on May 23, 1994 at Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library.
The picture shocked the world in 1993 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 but it also had a negative impact in Carter’s psychism so that…
3 months later he committed suicide with carbon monoxide due to heavy depression.
His suicide note read, in part, “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain
. . .of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners . . . “
Kevin Carter (September 13, 1960 – July 27, 1994) was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club.
As a tribute, the Welsh band Manic Street Preachers recorded a song about him on their 1996 album Everything Must Go.
“Hi Time magazine, hi Pulitzer Prize
Tribal scars in Technicolor
Bang bang club, AK 47 hour
Kevin Carter
Hi Time magazine, hi Pulitzer Prize
Vulture stalked white piped lie forever
Wasted your life in black and white
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter…
The elephant is so ugly he sleeps his head
Machetes his bed Kevin Carter kaffir lover forever
Click click click click click
Click himself under
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter”
Manic Street Preachers – Kevin Carter Everything Must Go ©1996
June 13, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Good bles you Kevin were ever you are i hope there was more people like you to help those who need it.. one day when i graduate from highschool i will follow your example and help others…. NO ONE CAN BE THIS BRAVE!!!!!
October 20, 2008 at 12:03 am
Nice post. I have recently been assigned to write about Mr. Carter and fing him amazing. Thank you for the nice photo of him actually, i have been trying to find more photos by him and his counterparts, do you know where I can find more?
October 20, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Well, many thanks!
As for the photos i think you should try google, right?
Have fun..
February 1, 2009 at 6:21 am
i am haunted by these pictures
October 15, 2009 at 10:36 am
this is the world we are living in, there are many stories that remain untold about the suffering people especially of Africa, it’s time we rise up and do something. We need to spread some love by making sure whatever we do is geared to making life better.