THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KEVIN CARTER
Visiting Sudan, a little-known photographer took a picture that made the world weep. What happened afterward is a tragedy of another sort. ...
BY SCOTT MACLEOD/JOHANNESBURG The image presaged no celebration: a child barely alive, a vulture so eager for carrion. Yet the photograph that epitomized Sudan's famine would win Kevin Carter fame - and hopes for anchoring a career spent hounding the news, free-lancing in war zones, waiting anxiously for assignments amid dire finances, staying in the line of fire for that one great picture. On May 23, 14 months after capturing that memorable scene, Carter walked up to the dais in the classical rotunda of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library and received the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. The South African soaked up the attention. "I swear I got the most applause of anybody," Carter wrote back to his parents in Johannesburg. "I can't wait to show you the trophy. It is the most precious thing, and the highest acknowledgment of my work I could receive."
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter: South African photojournalist (b. Sept. 13, 1960, Johannesburg, South Africa - d. July 27, 1994, Johannesburg)
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