The world owes the photographer an apology: Did the little girl in the photo survive?

There is an idiom in China called "A man's words are awesome", which comes from the Book of Songs: "A man's words are awesome." Speech seems harmless, but in fact it will cause mental harm to others, which will have a physiological impact and eventually "gossip destroys bones." Today, we will tell a real news case.

The Pulitzer Prize for Journalism was established at 19 17. A century later, it has become a benchmark in journalism. In layman's terms, the Nobel Prize for Journalism is it. Winning this award should be something to be proud of and happy about. However, 26 years ago, the photographer of Hungry Sudan committed suicide in depression two months after winning the prize.

The photographer named kevin carter won the Pulitzer Prize for "Close-up News Photography" for this world-famous photo. Since the photo came out, everyone who has seen it has been shocked by the real scenes of disasters and famines in backward areas of Africa.

The photo was taken at 1993 and was first published in The New York Times, USA in March of that year. After widespread discussion, many media rushed to promote it around the world. The little Sudanese girl in the photo looks very pitiful. She has been starving all the year round, and her body is only skin and bones, with a big head and a small body.

These are not the saddest and most desperate things for people who look at photos. The little girl is too hungry to walk. She buried her head and rested quietly. She didn't notice that a vulture was staring at her not far behind her, as if she had been taken as the object of picking up food. In other words, even vultures feel the girl's weakness.

Therefore, once the photos were published, it caused great controversy. Why did the person who took this photo win a senior prize in the press? Why didn't he put down the camera and save the little girl in danger first? Why should the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism be awarded to such a cold-blooded photographer?

In fact, photographer Carter is from South Africa and is a mulatto. He is committed to combating racial discrimination. In order to appeal to more people to pay attention to hunger and poverty in Africa and the rights and interests of blacks, Carter took many real photos. The photo "Hungry Sudan" was taken in the era when war and famine coexisted in Sudan. Carter saw the little girl near the Sudan food relief station.

He was shocked by the scene in front of him, immediately picked up the camera, pressed the shutter, and then drove away the vulture. The little girl is not alone. At that time, she went with her mother to receive relief food distributed by the United Nations, and she was still wearing a humanitarian protection ring. Mother was busy getting food, but she ignored the little girl and waited quietly beside her.

At that time, Carter was a photographer who came to Sudan on a plane distributed by the United Nations and was responsible for shooting the real famine scene. He sympathized with those poor children. After the little girl in the photo left, he sat under a tree and shouted his daughter's name in a trance, saying that he wanted to hug her very much. He kept calling on God, crying at the same time.

However, after the photos were published, few people paid attention to the truth. Most media and the public only saw the vulture standing behind the girl when taking pictures, so they criticized Carter for being ruthless and only taking pictures, regardless of the little girl's life or death. A media commented: "(Carter) stepped on the little girl and won the Pulitzer Prize."

Carter had a nervous breakdown under constant negative public opinion attacks. 1994, Carter won the Pulitzer prize for journalism, and then the South African police decided that Carter committed suicide in his car and could not be saved. He left his last words and said, "I'm really sorry."

However, even after Carter's death, the attacks by "just people" did not stop, and even shifted to his family. It was not until 20 1 1 that the media found the father of the "little girl". The other party said that the photo of "Hungry Sudan" was actually taken by his son, and their family has been living on relief food.

Unfortunately, my son died of illness four years ago. At this point, the truth came out. Those who attacked Carter and won prizes by stepping on the little girl's body didn't even take the time to investigate Carter's experience or the real life of the little girl's family. They just used their "morality" to strictly demand Carter, and finally forced the photographer to death.

Carter took that photo to draw people's attention to the backward and poor areas, otherwise he wouldn't have risked the war to go to Sudan at that time. Sadly, rumors about his personal moral discussion are rampant, and the hunger situation in Sudan has been completely ignored. If I do it again, I wonder if Carter will press the shutter again.