Saturday, August 9, 2008

Pulitzer 1994 (Kevin Carter)





This is the text that is printed in fine print under the picture:
The PHOTO is the "Pulitzer prize" winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine. The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.>The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.>Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.
This is what the photographer had to say after he took the photograph:
Dear God,I promise I will never waste my food no matter how bad it can taste and how full I may be. I pray that He will protect this little boy, guide and deliver him away from his misery. I pray that we will be more sensitive towards the world around us and not be blinded by our own selfish nature and interests. I hope this picture will always serve as a reminder to us that how fortunate we are and that we must never ever take things for granted.Let's make a prayer for the suffering in anywhere anyplace around the globe and send this friendly reminder to others Think & look at this...when you complain about your food and the food we wasted daily.......
Thanks,
Ankita
P.S. The next pic would be on heat.. So watch out for that mates....

2 comments:

Rohit Talwar said...

In this clueless space of blogs where everyone tries to show how eccentric he/she can be blogs with a message is a prize for leader

Anonymous said...

Good for people to know.