Kevin Carter, who was a South African photojournalist and part of The Bang Bang Club, he was in Sudan near the village of Ayod when he spotted the young toddler and the vulture. He found the small emaciated little girl struggling to make her way to the food station …show more content…
Yet the photograph that epitomized Sudan's famine would win Kevin Carters fame”. In May 1994, Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for the now famous photograph of the vulture stalking a child, now over a year from when it was taken. Carter couldn’t enjoy the prize because of his absolute regret of not helping the young little girl. Cater was consumed by the violence had had witnessed and haunted by the questions not only from the press, but also from the world. The photograph could not be unseen or deleted. Carter was not the only one to be affected by how the media responded, so did his daughter. She responded “I see my dad as the suffering child. And the rest of the world is the vulture”. The photography techniques used to take the photograph is analogue, which means there will always be a hard copy of the image though a negative. That negative can then be reproduced, copied and spread across the world. There was no escape for Kevin