The winning photo of the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. But the owner of this photo did not come to collect the award since he was suffering from a mental issue. He committed suicide four days after he was rewarded. Kevin Cater freelance photographer took this photo in Sudan during a famine.
Behind the story of this suicide is a very sad one. The girl in this picture was a Sudanese. At the time Sudan suffering from severe famine. The people lived there were suffering from malnutrition and starving. This girl collapsed on her way to a feeding centre while a vulture was looking for her as its prey. The question asked by everyone who saw this picture was that what happened to this girl? No one knows it. Carter knows well that the girl who was starving couldn’t walk anymore, not even a foot. Because of that, the girl was going to be a prey for the vulture. By taking an excellent photo Carter has done his job as a photographer. But as a human being he has come short of his job. Several times he questioned from God why shouldn’t he prevent the girl from death. He was mental worried since the day that he took this photo. After few months he retired from his field. Though he retired he cannot escape from his conscience. Meanwhile he got the news that his picture has became the best feature photographer in 1994 in Pulitzer Award. Once again his stress was increasing higher and higher. The trying of suicide of Carter at the night of the award ceremony was prevented because his friend saw him. Next morning the newspapers were full of details in Cater and this historical picture.
At last he escaped from his conscience on 27th of July 1994 at Braamfontein Spruit River in South Africa a place which is prohibited to enter. There, inside the pipe he was dead smelling carbon monoxide gas.
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