THE VULTURE IS A PATIENT BIRD, A POWERFUL PICTURE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

A vulture waiting for the boy to die so it can feed on the remain of the hunger ridden dying boy is the exemplifying factor of the saying "The vulture is a patient bird". The South African photojournalist, Kevin Carter who took this photograph won a Pulitzer Prize for his image. However, the darkness of that bright day never lifted from him and he committed suicide a year later in July 1994, writing, “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain.”

I feel sorry for Kevin Carter, he wasn't part of the Sudanese Gvt that did let down her Citizens neither was he part of the larger globe that failed Sudan. He just did his part but as always we live in a world where nobody appreciates the efforts of others and he died paying the price for failure of others.

The demons that hunt him bothers on people's comments insinuating the fact that he should've helped the young boy before jetting out of the warring and hunger infested country. People says it's pure evil. How can someone use another person’s misery for their career success? Cruel those who delight & take pleasure in this kind of suffering. So the photographer saw an opportunity to take a picture and not to feed and shelter this child, it's a shame.

A picture can topple a government. It can start a revolution. It can change and shape generations, sheltering a single child or even 20 kids only helps 20 kids for a few months maybe then the same government goes back to creating more starving kids and you can't help them. So you'd rather feed and shelter that child for a week then go back to your life instead of letting the world know what that and other kids are going through so they can get permanent help. That picture makes me and you want to help even after 27 years it's that powerful.

So Who's to blame? Is it the photographer whose job is exposing war atrocities or African rulers whose atrocious acts reduces their people to human decay? This isn't an issue of opportunistic. Rather, it's paramount to shine lights on human evils wherever it occurs. Without these images, the world wouldn't have never known the horrors that took place in the Sudan.... Plus he was just a journalist not from the Red Cross

It's called getting the message out, genius. This photo helped the rest of the world to know how bad things were there in order to help. Career fame had nothing to do with it. He might not help the kid by then but saved lot of them now cause of the circulatory photography.. am not really happy he did that but sometimes we need to sacrifice something to get lot of things done. Does not make sense at all. Save life first then post the photo for the world to get the message.