The Journalist, the Vulture, and the Child
Wednesday April 12, 2006
The haunting photo of a vulture stalking an emaciated Sudanese girl who'd collapsed on her way to a feeding station won photographer Kevin Carter a Pulitzer Prize in 1994. Carter also become notorious for sticking to the journalistic principle of being an observor and not getting involved -- he left after taking his photo and neither he, nor the New York Times, which first published the photo on 26 March 1993, knew what happened to her. (Looking at the photo, it's hard to imagine a pleasant ending.) A few months later after collecting his Pulitzer, Carter committed suicide, the violence he'd encountered in his life as a journalist, especially in South Africa, becoming too much to live with.
2 comments:
Será essa a fatalidade do ser humano,não consegui viver com a verdade ou morrer à fome?
Será essa a fatalidade do ser humano, morrer à fome ou não conseguir viver com a verdade?
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