Twenty-eight years ago, the New York Times published a photograph that shocked the world: "Hungry Sudan."
In the photo, a dying Sudanese girl, with dark skin and hungry flesh, knelt on the ground and lowered her head, because only skin and bones were left, and the head appeared to be extraordinarily large, and a fierce vulture was standing not far behind the girl, waiting to hunt her body.
As one of the least developed countries in the world, in that year, civil strife and famine in the Sudan followed, people's lives were difficult and desperate, and the Relief Food of the United Nations became the only hope for many people to survive.
Photographer Kevin Carter captured the girl in Sudan on her knees hungry and weak while waiting for relief food, and authorized The New York Times to publish it.
For a time, countless media outlets reprinted the photo, which attracted worldwide attention, and Sudan's famine and civil unrest received more attention, for which Carter won the 1994 Pulitzer Press Feature Photography Award.
However, the attacks against him began to overwhelm, and many people questioned why Carter still had the heart to take pictures at that time, and did not go to drive away the vultures and save the girls at the first time.
He was a cold-blooded animal, stepping on the girl's corpse for honor, he was a sinner and should be spurned!
For a time, public opinion was very loud, and some people even planned to blow up Carter.
Although Carter was lucky to escape the disaster, but fell into endless pain, no matter how to explain, few people are willing to listen to the truth, they only believe their eyes and judgment, and finally Carter despaired, only 2 months after winning the award, he chose to commit suicide, huge mental pressure ended his 34-year-old young life.
His death quickly extinguished the outpouring of anger, and some people came forward one after another to speak up for Carter:
When Carter took the picture, the little girl was not alone in the desert, she was accompanied by a team to receive relief food, her mother was also nearby; the ring she was wearing on her hand showed that she had received international humanitarian help, and the vulture's habit was to eat corpses, and the child's life would not be in danger...
The kind Carter captured it because he was shocked by this picture, and his starting point was to hope that more people would pay attention to the war and famine in Sudan to help, and after a few pictures, he drove away the vultures.
When the little girl left, Carter even sat on the ground and cried bitterly, because he couldn't help but think of his daughter.
Such a soft-hearted person has died on those who think they are "upholding justice" and moral kidnapping. The African girl, who attracted attention for her photographs, later died of illness in 2007.
