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                                          The  Vulture  &  The  Little  Girl

    Kevin Carter commited   sucide  3  month after he won the Pulitzer prize for a photograph of a vulture stalking a starving girl.

                                  


                                                                          (Kevin Carter )

“ I am depressed….without phone…..money for rent…..money for child support…..money for debts…..money!!!.....I am hunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses  and anger and pain….. of trigger-happy madmen,often police,of killer excutioners….. I have gone to join ken if I am that lucky.”

   This is the last word by photographer Kevin Carter .In march 1993,photographer Kevin Carter took a trip of South Sudan,where hetook an iconic photo of a starving little girl being preyed  upon by vulture.He said that the high pitched whimpering sound of a toddler  near the Ayod village attracted  him.The girl was taking a rest while struggling to get to a feeding centre .He confessed that he waited 20 minutes for the vulture to fly away and when it didn’t, Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased  away the vulture.(The girl’s parents had left her to pick food from a UN plane nearby.)

 

 


       (The stalking vulture and  a starving girl from South Sudan,1993)

         The hauntin photograph appeared for the first time on the New York  times paper on March 26,1993,where it was first sold.It was a metaphoric representation of Africa’s despair.Hundreds of people contacted the paper questioning whether the little girl  had survived to which the paper respond through an unusual editor’s note saying that the girl garned enough strength to walk away from the vulture but her ultime fate  was not known.It was a rule for the journalists in sudan not to touch victims of the famine,to avoid the risk of transmitting diseases.Carter though camp under a lot of criticism for not assisting the girl.The St.Petersburg times wrote this about him:” 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.”

        Cater won the pultizer prize for this photo but couldn’t enjoy it because he regretted not helping the child.He was consumed by the violence he had witnessed and haunted by questions about the fate of the girl.He told an interviewer that after this he smoked cigarattes under a tree & cried. 3 monthes  after receiving  the price,Carter committed suicide.

Thank You

Suvendu  Singha. (Odisha)  


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