Kevin Carter took this photograph in
southern Sudan. The picture would later bring him the Pulitzer prize,
but also death. The image shows a vulture waiting for a child to
starve to death. This horrific sight affected the photographer so
deeply that he committed suicide after winning the Pulitzer Prize.
Portions of Carter's suicide note read:
"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners ... I have gone to join Ken if I'am that lucky."
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