Vulture Stalks A Child
by
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist whose mission, along with others of the "Bang-bang Club, was to expose the brutality of apartheid. Carter took this picture on his trip to Sudan to cover the famine going on there. Soon after Carter got off the plane, he heard whimpering and went to investigate. When he saw the little girl who had stopped to rest on her way to a feeding center, a vulture landed near her looking for food. Carter, who saw the artistic and exposing possibilities, took twenty minutes to set up the photo so that it would be perfect. After winning the Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism almost a year later and receiving loads of negative criticism for not helping the little girl, Carter, with no money and haunted by scenes of suffering and corpses, committed suicide. Even though his life fell apart before him, to this day Kevin Carter is still known as an iconic photographer because of his noble work in exposing apartheid in South Africa.
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