Kevin Carter’s Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine.
The picture depicts a young starving Sudanese girl being stalked by a vulture. The child is crawling towards a United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.
No one knows what happened to the girl, including the photographer who left the scene as soon as the photo was taken. He later confided to friends that he wished he had intervened. Journalists at the time were warned never to touch famine victims for fear of disease. However Kevin Carter received criticism from some of his peers: "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 later, and only weeks after being bestowed with the Pulitzer Prize, Kevin Carter committed suicide.
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