Wednesday, March 9, 2011

wanting a meal. . .

This photograph showing a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.

he just took a shot and then left, without even trying to help this helpless angel. . .
the child has died due to severe starvation, idk what happened next, but the only thing i knew. . .
he killed himself.

A portion of his suicide note:
 "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."

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