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Taken by Kevin Carter. Carter became part of what was dubbed “The Bang Bang Club”, a group of journalist who got extremely close to the violence that marked the end of the apartheid era. He would receive a few accolades for photography, but no real international attention; however his moment came in Sudan in 1993. There he would seek to cover the tribulations of famine victims. Ducking away from the crowds, he would encounter a child who had collapsed from hunger.
Carter spotted a vulture approaching the child and stayed very still, as not to frighten the bird. He would wait for what he believed twenty minutes before chasing the bird away and leaving to sit under a tree, crying and smoking. The photo would become a sensation, igniting controversy over whether or not Carter should have helped the child in the photo. Carter would slowly slip into depression and drug use. However his life took a brief upturn with winning the Pulitzer Prize.
The photographer committed suicide on July 27th 1994.