Tragic Story Behind the Best Picture
The story behind the object image and the person who took this photo, it was really tragic.
In the photo tells a child victim of the conflict in Sudan about 1993, were crawling toward the place of the UN’s refugee camps, a distance of 1 km, followed by a vulture behind waiting to devour the dead child.
The story is tragic no one knows the fate of children in the photo, including who took the photo photographer, who immediately went after the photo was taken, considering in the area of armed conflict are threatening the reply is photographer. 3 months after the photo was the last known photographer, after he did interviews, and the photo was finally published in the newspaper The New York Times on March 26, 1993.
The photographer it was Kevin Carter. Kevin Carter is a senior photographer from Johannesburg, South Africa. He claimed the child was forced to leave, because by then he had to get the ban to touch the refugees, because, they worried carrying dangerous diseases. On 2 April 1994 Kevin Carter finally obtain the highest award, the Pulitzer for Feature Photography for this work. Soon after he earned this award, he got a lot of criticism, because he did not try to help this child.
A week after he got the award, he eventually committed suicide, due to the very guilt in which attacked.
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