The touching photo of "Vultures and Girls", after many years, what is the ending of girls and photographers?

I believe many people like photography, because the photos taken can not only record the beauty in life, but also record the casual moments in life. Moreover, taking photos is more intuitive than keeping a diary. Keeping a diary only records weak words, while taking photos records a whole picture, which is more impactful than keeping a diary. Looking back on the development of the whole photography history, many excellent works have emerged and left many beautiful moments. These photos may be realistic or beautiful, and most of them record moments. I believe many people have seen such a photo. There is a girl in the photo, and a vulture is standing not far from her. The picture of this photo is very impactful, which caused a lot of discussion after it was sent out.

This photo, entitled Hungry Sultan, is the work of the famous photographer kevin carter. Later, the author won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1994 for this work. Unfortunately, the photographer committed suicide shortly after winning the prize. Some people say that this is because the photographer's inner guilt tortured him to death, so he chose to commit suicide. Others said that the photographer suffered from depression after taking this photo and chose to commit suicide because he couldn't get out of his inner shadow. There are all kinds of speculations, but what is the real situation?

During 1993, wars broke out frequently in Sudan, and a large-scale famine broke out in this country. As a freelance photographer from South Africa, kevin carter went to Sudan to shoot. In an accidental situation, he captured this shocking scene. A skinny girl couldn't walk on the way to the food relief center and fell to the ground. At this time, a big vulture is greedily staring at the girl, trying to take it as his own food. After this photo was released, many people were looking for the whereabouts of the little girl, but unfortunately, as a photographer, Carter did not know the whereabouts of the girl. Carter waited there for nearly 20 minutes before taking this photo. Of course, after the photo was taken, Carter also drove away the vultures and watched the girl go forward.

This photo won the Pliester Prize, but Carter died two months after winning the prize. Because he can't stand people's criticism, when this photo was released, people were not concerned about the phenomenon of Sudanese starving, but Carter's self-indulgent behavior. When people take a frame with a camera, they often separate things in the picture, which will also separate some things. At that time, in addition to the picture in this photo, there was a mother who put the girl aside and was busy receiving welfare. But in order to make the picture more impactful, Carter didn't bring her mother in, so when people saw this photo, they naturally understood that the girl was crawling slowly in the wild without help. At that time, people thought that Carter should and must show humanity, give relief to the little girl instead of taking pictures, and said that the picture was really shocking, but when facing life and death, Carter should lend a helping hand.

But people only blame Carter, but forget that vultures don't eat living things. They only eat dead bodies, and the mother of the child is nearby. So what can Carter blame for pressing the shutter? Carter committed suicide, in addition to external pressure, external discussion, good friend being shot dead, anxiety about money, and all kinds of ups and downs in life, which finally made Carter have a mental breakdown. 1One day in July, 994, he chose to die. Later, the child in the photo received relief food and lived until 2007. Because he was ill and didn't get timely treatment, he died unfortunately. It's really ironic.

Both of them had awkward endings. Carter just did what a photographer should do, but he died in the abuse of others. When people saw this photo, they didn't think about how to solve the famine problem in Sudan and didn't help those people living in war, poverty and backwardness. Instead, they accused Carter of not giving humanitarian aid. They also forgot that vultures don't eat live animals, and there may be people outside the photo.

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In fact, the photographer just wants to show that many places in the world are still at war through this photo and call people's attention to these places. In addition, this photo is very powerful, showing the most painful and cruel side, so it gives people the illusion that the photographer wants to provide humanitarian assistance, but forgets many routine things, such as the characteristics of animals, the girl's family and so on. Moreover, this photo wants to express not only the fragility of children, but also the problems behind them, the tragedy of war and the suffering of mankind.