Think and look at these when you complain about your food...
A haunting photograph by Kevin Carter from the Sudan famine crisis of a small, starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture. However, Carter also came under heavy criticism for just photographing — and not helping — the girl.This criticism and the death of a close friend may have contributed to Carter's suicide at the age of 33. His suicide note read:
"I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen... The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist."
3 comments:
I'm a 16 year old Australian. I go to a private School and i'm never short of money or food. I always think of sponsering a child or joining the 40 hour famine but it never happens 'cos i'm always doing somthing else. These pictures have now changed that. there horrifiing! i couldn't imagine being in a stuation like that i feel like reaching through the screen and taking them all home! When i first seen these i cried i'm stil crying and even if Mr carter didn't help the girl he's certainly opened my eyes and many others that have come along this page to world hunger.
I will never understand how we will fight for whales, cats and dogs,but not human life!!!!
How anyone could look at these photos and not be moved to tears is beyond me. I have always been sensitive to issues of suffering and have lived a mindful, vegetarian and minimalist life for years, however these photos have shaken me to my core.
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