The Heart-Breaking Story Behind The Picture Of The Starving Little Girl In Sudan

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Heart-Breaking Story Behind The Picture Of A Starving Little Girl In Sudan

Press photographer Kevin Carter took a historic picture; the famous picture of a girl who was starving to death, crawling to reach the UN feeding station. In the photograph, one can see a bird of prey waiting patiently to devour the little girl. Carter was awarded but also criticized for his picture.


Heart-Breaking Story Behind The Picture Of A Starving Little Girl In Sudan
Kevin Carter

Carter was born in 1960 in Johannesburg in South Africa. He began working as a sports photographer. Later he decided to work for the Johannesburg Star, bent on exposing the brutality of apartheid.


In March 1993, while on a trip to Sudan, Carter was preparing to photograph a starving toddler trying to reach a feeding center when a hooded vulture landed nearby. Carter reported taking the picture, because it was his "job title", and leaving. He was told not to touch the children for fear of transmitting disease. After taking the picture, he got up and chased the vulture away. (The Life And Death Of Kevin Carter) He then sat under a tree and smoked a cigarette crying.


The next day, the picture was published in New York Times. It was heart-breaking and shocked everyone. It immediately became a symbol that described hunger in Africa. However, readers desired to know what happened to the girl. Unfortunately Carter didn't know... (source)


Some people said that Kevin Carter, the photojournalist who took this photo, was inhumane, that he should have dropped his camera to run to the little girl’s aid. The controversy only grew when, a few months later, he won the Pulitzer Prize for the photo. By the end of July 1994, he was dead. (source)


Heart-Breaking Story Behind The Picture Of A Starving Little Girl In Sudan
The desperation of this starving boy was captured in Sudan by Kevin Carter

On 27 July 1994 Carter drove his way to Parkmore near the Field and Study Center, an area where he used to play as a child, and committed suicide by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the driver’s side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. Carter’s suicide note read:


“I’m really, really sorry. The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist… I am depressed… without phone… money for rent … money for child support… money for debts… money!!!… 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… I have gone to join Ken [recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek] if I am that lucky”. (source)

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  1. I thought god is almighty? What the f**k is he doing?

    Religion is just a made up stories from ancient scholars to control people

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    1. He gave us freedom of choice, and that's what we did with it. God isn't to blame. We are!

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    2. People does choose to be sick or hungry. If there was a god, he could easily help them, and yet, allows suffering of the innocent.

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    3. God is a good man. It is man's greed not God's indifference that causes poverty and starvation.

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  2. people try to fill in the blanks saying its part gods plan.when things dont add up i find there is always a bad reason for fog in the air which the world loves to get lost in.there is a big piece missing out of something we believe in.the mean while nothing going to happen unless every one comes togather to make it happen.there is no reason to see photos of starving people.plenty money in world.take care of the people who need it or spend money to nudder.

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