In 1993 the sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering near the village of Ayod attracted Kevin Carter (photographer) to an emaciated Sudanese toddler. The girl had stopped to rest while struggling to a feeding center, whereupon a vulture had landed nearby.Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away. However, he came under criticism for just photographing — and not helping — the little girl. Carter had won the most coveted prize for photojournalism. Carter was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography on May 23, 1994. Tragically 2 months later, Carter took his own life, stating in a note, "I am depressed...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..."
This photo breaks my heart, to know that people, especially children, live like this.
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