..... what is this child's sin;
is it the color of her skin?
The Photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine, by Kevin Carter.
"In March 1993 Carter made a trip to southern Sudan. The sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering near the village of Ayod attracted Carter to a young emaciated Sudanese toddler. The girl had stopped to rest while struggling to a feeding center, wherein a vulture had landed nearby. He said that he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn't. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away. However, he also came under heavy criticism for just photographing — and not helping — the little girl:"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."
Three months after this photo was taken, Kevin Carter committed suicide due to depression.
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This photo have moved a lot when they saw and you are right in depth of our passion to be the best photographer or even for me being a poet we tend to forget our humanity... thank you for the lesson
Sometimes, because of our ego, or desire for materialism, we lay our humanity by the wayside.
He might not have been able to live without his humanity, but millions are.
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