Hello everybody!
Today I'll show you a photo, but not a picture that I like, because it is very impressive. The photo was published in the New York Times on March 30, 1993, and was taken by photographer Kevin Carter in Sudan, an African country. It is a photo that shows a vulture waiting to pounce on a little girl who is dying of hunger. This photo was taken at a time when many African countries including Sudan, were in one of the worst famines in its history.
The photo received the Pulitzer Prize in 1994, but provoked much criticism from human rights organizations. They thought that the photographer had left the girl to die at the hands of vulture without doing anything just to get a good photo. But in reality, it was not: Kevin Carter took the photo and then chased away the vulture and the child didn’t die, but she was a lot of time on the floor, hoping to wake up to find some food. This can be considered a cruelty.
The photographer suicide months later, and the photo that he took and circulates today around the world as one of the most horrific photos taken never before in the history.
What do you think of the picture?
Hernán,
ResponderEliminarWhat do I think? It’s absolutely socking, the kind of thing that makes you want to avert your eyes from and wish it weren’t true and you hadn’t seen it.
Hello everybody!
Today I'll show you a photo, but not a picture that I like, because it is very impressive. The photo was published in the New York Times on March 30, 1993, and was taken by photographer Kevin Carter in Sudan, an African country. It is a photo that shows a vulture waiting to pounce on a little girl who is dying of hunger. This photo was taken at a time when many African countries including Sudan, were in one of the worst famines in THEIR history.
The photo received the Pulitzer Prize in 1994, but provoked much criticism from human rights organizations. They thought that the photographer had left the girl to die at the hands of THE vulture without doing anything just to get a good photo. But in reality, it was not: Kevin Carter took the photo and then chased away the vulture and the child didn’t die, but she was on the floor a lot of time, hoping to wake up to find some food. This can be considered a cruelty.
The photographer COMMITTED suicide months later, and the photo that he took and circulates today around the world IS one of the most horrific photos EVER taken in history.
What do you think of the picture?