Remember this photo? Anyway, Xiao Ke's elementary school students have seen this photo more than once. A vulture stared at the Hungry African girl, and when the girl fainted from hunger, it could eat her full meal.
Titled "Hungry Sudan," the photograph was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, which is known as the "Nobel of Journalism" and is the highest honor in journalism.
Of course, this is not a photo of ps or post-synthesis, but a scene that really happened that year.
The photographer was photographer Kevin Carter, and the photo was published in The New York Times, for which he became famous around the world, but also committed suicide because of it.
The photo is from the movie "Gunshot Club" recommended by Xiao Ke today, which depicts the streets of South Africa torn apart by the civil war. The film is based on real events of the year.
A group of war photographers are active on the front line, braving the rain of bullets to present us with a cruel and real scene.
This is a group of "war photographers" active in Africa, and the most they hear every day is the gunshot of "boom boom~", so they gathered together to found The Bang Bang Club, also known as the Gun Club.
The team consists of four photographers and a beautiful editor who are active on the front lines of Africa and shoot materials every day.
The war and death they are most exposed to every day, and their job is to photograph death itself, in addition to which they can only anesthetize themselves with alcohol and marijuana, because they are powerless to face the death around them.
Filmmaker Greg is a member of this group, and he inadvertently filmed the "Burning Alive" photo "The Death of Shaparara", which was adopted by international news agencies such as the Associated Press, and won the Pulitzer Prize.
Another photographer, Kevin Carter, also won the Pulitzer Prize for filming "Hungry Sudan" and has since gained fame.
During a field filming mission, Greg was shot and seriously injured, another member died directly on the spot, and the Gunfire Club faced falling apart.
At the same time, Kevin Carter was also under pressure from public opinion. People from all walks of life around the world have questioned Kevin Carter, why didn't he save the girl who was targeted by the Condor, but chose to shoot?
Isn't a living life worth a Pulitzer Prize? Wandering and powerlessness tormented his soul even more, and finally he was overwhelmed and chose to commit suicide.
At the end of the film, the only two remaining photographers choose to stay on the front line.
Because they know that without them, the tragedy of war in Africa can only be a series of casualty figures on the news network.
With them, we can watch more realistic, intuitive, and empathetic images. Hats off to them!