If I wrote a story for a newspaper and said, "I saw a starving girl crawling to the food tent and there was a vulture behind her waiting for her to die so he could feast", would not have the impact of seeing the photo. Help preserve this vital resource. Photography is a powerful way to begin a revolution if only the world will notice and channel resources to a specific goal hunger will be something in the past. But inside something is screaming: ‘My God!’. This rotten professionalism sense be damned. Because of this, Carter was bombarded with questions about why he did not help the girl, and only used her to take a photograph. Yeah that seems like a crap idea. It's easy to criticise and moralise from the comfort of a warm home and with a full belly. It was his job, it's a dirty job and he did his job well. He took the photo and left. As many people do here - goes back and forth and often gets very heated - its a heated conversation. After abandoning his plans of becoming a pharmacist, Carter was forced to join the South African Defense Force (S.A.D.F.) The picture above of a vulture and a starving child is a famous photograph by Kevin Carter. In 1983, while on guard duty at the air force headquarters in Pretoria, a bomb attributed to the African National Congress (A.N.C) exploded, killing nineteen people and injuring 217. This is just sad beyond words and beliefs. His photo highlighted the famine in Africa thereby saving thousands of lives in the process. The child was not unique. For all the people blaming or supporting Kevin Carter must watch- The Bang Bang Club movie in order to understand their situation, thinking & perspective. It was not Carter's job to save the child. So no fame or fortune, the man took a picture of something negative because it had an impact, a meaning. It is a sad beginning and ending too..really mysterious...probably the little poor girl died and the photographer took his life at the end..too bad, life is truly tough. “The Life and Death of Kevin Carter.” critizizing the one person who truely did help in the only way he knew how. I feel guilty of living in this time when I survived enjoying plenty of food and water while someone like this girl, who is human being like me, struggled and crawled on ground to get something to eat. Also if we are all aloud oppinions - then i include myself, so am intitled to have one. It takes away from your credibility. After reading so many comments of judgement against him, "no joy" statement is so understood. I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain… of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners…” and he ends with this “I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky.”. It's a very difficult job to be a journalist and particularly a photo journalist. I'm sure you were one of the best things in his life. The dawn of hunger is just beginning to break, even for some Americans, the land of plenty. And yes, getting an infection while helping save her life is many times worth it compared to committing suicide due to depression. If it were his own child, then what would he do? His job was an extremely hard job because he had to see the worst of humanity. Just cruelty toward people who have embraced them after all that they have done to them, murdered, hanged, raped, forced into slavery, stolen from there land, language, food, their true history, black males called boys even at 60-70 years of age. Thanks to his work, the famine in Sudan became internationally known. So shut the hell up! However, Carter was working in a time when photojournalists were told not to touch famine victims for fear of spreading disease. We are here talking and the better ones.. Are actually doing something.. That was the point.. He got up off his pharmacitical ass and did something about it. Yet I do little or nothing. The need to concretized my thoughts led me to research the photo on the internet and encountered this exchange. On April 18, the Bang-bang Club headed out to Tokoza Township, ten miles from downtown Johannesburg to cover an outbreak of violence. I am grateful to Kevin Carter for the work he has done and Megan should know that many others feel the same about his legacy. Have a great life! May he rest in peace. It was this attack that led Carter to the decision of becoming a photojournalist. But it was later announced that the child was a boy and the vulture nearby was waiting eagerly for carrion. Yes, Gachora! Get out with company on a cold winter morning, and you might just find who needs the food. This photo, Kevin is exactly a reflection of the ugliness at the throbbing heart of this world. He saved up his own cash to do so, and if you think you can do better for the people of Sudan, or anywhere for that matter, go..go..go!! Be grateful that you bear the genes of such an insightful person and one who affected the world. I pray that we will be more sensitive towards the world around us and not be blinded be our own selfish nature and interests.”. But it is insulting to people like him for you to sit back and take judgment as your weapon and just chill at home and pass judgement on someone who put his life on the line everyday to make this world a better place. “He was depressed after afterward,” Silva mentioned, “and kept mentioning he wanted to hug his daughter.”. I saw his photograph from 1993 and it has stayed with me ever since. he used his medium to shine light on something that billions didn't know about at that time and in the end saved millions of lives because of it so if you have any better ideas or feelings then go help, the world certainly needs it. Yes Jai. people name it professionalism, actually it is barbarism. He was actually doing something in horrid conditions to share the miserable plight of these unfortunate people. Carter was a photojournalist. Choose peace at all times. Good on you once you do something you get a say those that sit and do nothing do not get to preach. That is my option#4 and even I feel that would have been a better, humane course. The unique yet tragic of Carter is so indisputable. What an idiot: Carter was ripped to death by human suppression guilt and human insanity. This is my first time of seeing the soul-rattling picture, and it just changed my life. He UNDERSTOOD more than most of us. Guilt? After turning on the engine he laid on his side using the knapsack as a pillow while listening to music as he waited for death to come. We ignore these scenes, we avert our eyes pretending they don't exist. How many of you have lifted a finger to go over to help these people? A man who invested his talent, forfeited his mind and dear soul to capture a photo that inevitably most likely (now this is just my assumption mind you) very likely stirred action and motivated many organizations to donate to the cause, give supplies, send medical personnel or other help as well as countless millions of dollars of donations from United States who then pressured other governments to follow suit, all in all combined couldve then summarized that with this photo he saved millions of lives there in that same community where this little girl that would have died no matter what from what I'm understanding was portrayed. But as his baby girl and I must say I am beyond proud to be his daughter.. I challenge you to look beyond what is readily visible, and I challenge you to help. Can't and won't judge a 13 year old for not understanding perfectly accurate English. It is easy to blame cater for not "helping" her, but harder to blame ourselves for creating her. Kevin Carter’s life (and death) was the subject of the 2004 documentary, The Life of Kevin Carter. When you miss the story, you miss the opportunity to tell the story. what are we doing for someone like her???!!! Actually, it's "pray tell." He won the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan. Afterward he sat under a tree, lit a cigarette, talked to God and cried. If you do complain about fake news and how big journalism is nearly dead, then you don't get to. Some photojournalists might have easily dismissed such criticism, but it hit Carter hard and fed his self-doubts. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it. You are aware of the suffering In part because of photographers like this gentleman who took the photo. Along with his famous photograph, Carter had captured such things as a public necklacing execution in 1980s South Africa, along with the violence of the time, including shootouts and other executions. One day after losing his job Kevin tried to commit suicide by swallowing sleeping pills, painkillers, and rat poison but he survived it. Sending you all love and strength. iv experienced family suicide too but i can only imagine the pain in his heart and now yours. I think he brought reality to us what we don see everyday but happens. He threw himself into situations the rest of us would not. He did his job. This same photograph inspired me to get off my ass and help. Not meaning go do what he did which lets face it is super scary and is not for the faint hearted.. With only two weeks left before the election, Carter’s job was shaky, his love life was crumbling, and he was scrambling to find a place to live. To get the two in focus, Carter approached the scene very slowly so as not to scare the vulture away and took a photo from approximately 10 meters. I dont know why Kavin Carter took this picture. That being said I have experienced myself, and seen through others eyes, a great degree of pain and the emotional damage that can come when a person is invested in others and truly cares about others. Photography is not a money-making career. It is one of lifes tragedies that the photogrpher was unable to reach someone and get help. I am zooming in on a tight shot of the dead guy and a splash of red. In this photograph, the child (believed to be a girl) was attempting to reach a United Nations feeding center about a half-mile away in Ayod, Sudan (now South Sudan). rest in peace to the Little Girl and Kevin Carter, hope met in heaven, may God be with you. The St. Petersburg Times in Florida wrote: “The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene”. He is a photographer - by taking such a good shot - he DID help people. Since no one remained to give an eye witness account the best is to see the bigger picture and root cause(s) of such human suffering and do something about it. But he certainly exposed the horrrible reality and that is commendable. Next time you come on here, Megan Carter, give me a call and tell me why I'm wrong. he became a victim of not of violence but of the public's view on what he should of done when they themselves haven't got a clue to what you risk you have to take to let the world know whats really going on. At least that photographer was better than us.we sit on a comfortable place and say why didn’t he help her??? In 1993, Carter headed north of the border with João Silva to photograph the rebel movement in famine-stricken Sudan now (South Sudan). It would help u all to understand and judge him/them better! If anyone knows how I can get off this thread please let me know.
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