horror and truth about humanity
This image was taken in Sudan during the 1993 famine. That’s a little girl, crawling slowly and painfully across the ground toward a food distribution center, while a vulture watches her and follows, waiting for her to die so it can eat her.
The photographer, Kevin Carter, chased the bird away and then sat sobbing uncontrollably after taking the photo. In April of 1994, Carter was informed he’d be winning the Pulitzer Prize for the photo, and he was presented with the prize on May 23rd of that year. Two months later, he killed himself out of grief and desperation over all of the things he’d seen and his depression at the things humanity does to one another.
This image explains something very basic and true about our world, and something we are very reluctant to admit: in order for some of us to have more food than we need, children have to starve to death and animals have to eat them. We purchase our excess with those children’s lives. And this photo captured this truth purely and literally for us all to see.
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photo courtesy: Quorma
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Tarun Akash
September 4, 2011 at 1:41 pm
As I sit here wanting more possessions than I actually need, this startling photograph is like cold water thrown into my face. How can we let this sort of thing happen to little children in other parts of the world? I know that I do not appreciate how good we have it here in the USA. We have tough economic times while people in many parts of the world face devestation.
Rob Larson
February 16, 2012 at 10:14 pm
This is really sad
Humanity disappoints me sometime.
PareshanAatma
February 17, 2012 at 6:04 pm