A little-known photographer took a picture that made the world weep

Tuesday 7 July 2009

Have you ever imagined which could be the most sadest picture of the world.But you could say that depends on the context and the emotional feelings of individual.But for the rational human beings some things which could be the same like others.
Among the most sadest pictures,Kevin carter´s picture was selected most panic picture and award him the ``South African photojournalist´´

In March 1993 Carter made a trip to southern Sudan. when he was travelling he saw a girl had stopped to rest while struggling to a feeding center, whereupon a vulture had landed nearby. then waited there for some time hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn't. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away .Then he published his photograph in The New york Times ,he immidately he came under heavy criticism for just photographing — and not helping — the little girl:Among the criticizers one told

"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."

The photograph was sold to The New york Times where it appeared for the first time on March 26,1993. Overnight thousands of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper to run a special editor's note saying the girl had enough strength to walk away from the vulture, but that her ultimate fate was unknown.

On Aprill 2,1994,Nancy Buirski, a foreign New York Times picture editor, phoned Carter to inform him he had won the most coveted prize for photojournalism. Carter was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography .When Sudan was suffering from famine,peoples of sudan were living in starvation.They were waiting for foods from UN for several days.Cater was also there at the time whenThe parents of the children were busy taking food from the plane so they had left their children only while they collected the food. This was the situation for the girl in the photo taken by Carter. A vulture landed behind the girl. To get the two in focus, Carter approached the scene very slowly so as not to scare the vulture away and took a photo from approximately 10 metres. He took a few more photos and then the vulture flew off.

Kevin was higly depressed even from his proffession.In july 27,1994, Carter drove to the Braamfonteinspruit river, near the Field and Study Centre, an area where he used to play as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. Portions of Carter's suicide note read: "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 if I am that lucky.

After his death it is believed that Carter was mainly depressed from his photograph not only that particular photo but most of his photographs has its own important.However that photo is taken as the most panic picture which have ever taken in the history.