Kevin Carter
South African news photographer.

mentioned in kevin carter lyrics

 

Кевин Картер стал известен после своей фотографии погибающей от голода девочки в Судане, к которой приближался стервятник. Что случилось с девочкой после этого, выжила она или нет, не знает никто, даже сам Кевин Картер, поскольку он покинул место съёмки сразу после фотографирования. За эту фотографию он получил Пулитцеровскую премию. Через два месяца после получения премии Кевин Картер покончил жизнь самоубийством.

 In 1993, he went to Sudan to capture images of that nation's dismal and unending civil war. One of the pictures he took was of a starving little girl: she had collapsed in the bush, and a vulture nearby seemed to be waiting for her to die. The child was crawling towards Unated Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

 Noone knows what happened to the child, including the photographer, who left the scene as soon as the picture was taken. The photo was reproduced all over the world, touching many thousands of people, winning a Pulitzer Prize, and, a year later, apparently contributing to Carter's own suicide (see vulture stalked).

Carter, a white South African, spent only a couple of days in Sudan. He had gone into the bush seeking relief from the terrible starvation and suffering he was documenting, when he encountered the emaciated girl. When he saw the vulture land, Carter waited quietly, hoping the bird would spread its wings and give him an even more dramatic image but It didn't. Afterward Carter sat by a tree, talked to God, cried, and thought about his own daughter.
 

When the image of the prostrate girl and the patient vulture appeared, many people demanded to know what had happened to her. The New York Times explained in an editors' note that while she resumed her trek, the photographer didn't know if she had survived. Carter stood accused; callers in the middle of the night denounced him. The girl began to haunt him. he never has been clear about what happened to the girl and it is mostly assumed that carter didn't do anything and that the girl was picked up by her mother later.elephants are mentioned in the lyrics of 'kevin carter' because carter wrote in his diary about elephants in his dreams: nightmares about sudan. about In June 1994, Carter, beset by difficulties OF WAR-TRAUMAS AND THE DEATH OF HIS FRIEND KEN OOSTERBROEK, killed himself. The thirty-three-year-old photographer connected a hose to the exhaust pipe of his pickup truck and gassed himself to death. His suicide note speaks of the ghosts he could not escape, the "vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain," and the "starving and wounded children" ever before his eyes.

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