It does hurt indeed. The photographer, Kevin Carter, was haunted by the fact that he captured the image instead of helping the child, because he felt a photojournalist should not interfere in the story he was covering. He committed suicide, with this message:
"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." Dan On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:28 AM, eckinator <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2011/4/22 Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]>: > > > > The Pulitzer Prize winning image that makes these photographers > > significant is one you have all seen: > > > > http://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/kevin-carter-vulture.jpg?w=700&h=466 > > not me. sure as hell hurts to look at. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
