Tuesday 3 September 2013

Picture is Worth More than a Thousand Words

In March 19993 Kevin Carter became famous for his award winning picture that made the front page of the New York Times. It was a picture he took in Sudan of a starvation ravaged little girl crawling along a dusty road desperately trying to get to the United Nation’s clinic oblivious of a vulture waiting in the background for an opportunity to devour her! The photographer, Kevin Carter who took the heart wrenching picture, did not deem it fit to help the child who was at the point of death by carrying her to the U.N clinic but simply (after snapping the scene with his camera) went to take a smoke under the shade of a tree to watch the macabre drama of the vulture waiting to feast on the hapless child!