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# The vulture and the little girl

![The vulture and the little girl, 1993. Original title: Struggling Girl.](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iOVFs3KcqP4/V2SJc1PpeLI/AAAAAAAAKZE/MsQcmlFa3yI9TgJPSq3ANZ_qK5NN7lfJwCLcB/s1600/The%2Bvulture%2Band%2Bthe%2Blittle%2Bgirl.jpg)

The vulture and the little girl, 1993. Original title: Struggling Girl.

The vulture is waiting for the girl to die and to eat her. The photograph was taken by South African photojournalist, Kevin Carter, while on assignment to Sudan. He took his own life a couple of months later due to depression.

In March 1993 Kevin Carter made a trip to Sudan. Near the village of Ayod, Carter found a girl who had stopped to rest while struggling to a United Nations feeding center, whereupon a vulture had landed nearby.

Careful not to disturb the bird, he waited for twenty minutes until the vulture was close enough, positioned himself for the best possible image, and only then chased the vulture away.

At this point, Carter was probably not yet aware that he had shot one of the most controversial photographs in the history of photojournalism.

_“The parents of the children were busy taking food from the plane, so they had left their children only briefly while they collected the food. This was the situation for the girl in the photo taken by Carter._

_A vulture landed behind the girl. To get the two in focus, Carter approached the scene very slowly so as not to scare the vulture away and took a photo from approximately 10 meters. He took a few more photos before chasing the bird away”._

The photograph was sold to The New York Times where it appeared for the first time on March 26, 1993.

Practically overnight hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper to run a special editor’s note saying the girl had enough strength to walk away from the vulture, but that her ultimate fate was unknown.

Because of this, Carter was bombarded with questions about why he did not help the girl and only used her to take a photograph.

As with many dramatic photographs, Carter came under criticism for this shot. The St. Petersburg Times in Florida wrote: “The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene”.

The attitude that public opinion condemned was not only that of taking the picture instead of chasing the vulture immediately away but also the fact that he did not help the girl afterward –as Carter explained later- leaving her in such a weak condition to continue the march by her self towards the feeding center.

However, Carter was working in a time when photojournalists were told not to touch famine victims for fear of spreading disease. Carter estimated that there were twenty people per hour dying at the food center.

The child was not unique. Regardless, Carter often expressed regret that he had not done anything to help the girl, even though there was not much that he could have done.

In 1994, Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer prize for the disturbing photograph of a Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture. That same year, Kevin Carter committed suicide.

Carter is the tragic example of the toll photographing such suffering can take on a person. Along with his famous photograph, Carter had captured such things as a public necklacing execution in 1980s South Africa, along with the violence of the time, including shootouts and other executions.

Carter spoke of his thoughts when he took these photographs: “ _I had to think visually. I am zooming in on a tight shot of the dead guy and a splash of red. Going into his khaki uniform in a pool of blood in the sand._

_The dead man’s face is slightly gray. You are making a visual here. But inside something is screaming: ‘My God!’. But it is time to work. Deal with the rest later. If you can’t do it, get out of the game”_.

**The suicide:** On 27 July 1994 Carter drove his way to Parkmore near the Field and Study Center, an area where he used to play as a child, and committed suicide by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the driver’s side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. Carter’s suicide note read:

_“I’m really, really sorry. The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist… I am depressed… without a phone… money for rent … money for child support… money for debts… money!!!…_

_I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain… of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners… I have gone to join Ken \[_ recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek _\] if I am that lucky”._

_(Photo credit: Kevin Carter)._

Updated on: June 29, 2024

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[traboo2](http://gravatar.com/traboo2)[December 12, 2014](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-14636)

He did not chase the bird away. He took the photo and left.

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Ivona[January 26, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-18233)

He did, actually... many people and also the newspaper that published this photo, confirmed this information. He was a very compassionate person and all of that contributed to his suicide.

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Nikki[November 11, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-33517)

He wasn't that compassionate if it took him 20 minutes to get the shot before shooing the bird away. But he's not the first photographer to get the 'money' shot and not do anything to help anyone.

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megan[November 13, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-33578)

He's not part of the peace keeping force. He is a photographer - by taking such a good shot - he DID help people. He did his job. INCREDIBLY well.

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Farooq adil[June 21, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-48328)

If it were his own child, then what would he do? Ask from your heart...........

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bob[November 17, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-33799)

The thing is, this guy was told not to touch anyone there because there was a disease going around. If he wanted to get the photo, he had three options.

1\. Take a photo and leave

2\. Take a photo and, shoo the bird away, and leave

3\. Or take a photo, shoo the bird away, help the girl, and then leave

For the safety of him and anyone else who might get the disease if he touched the girl, he chose option #2.

You really can't blame him.

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Delilah[February 22, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-42057)

he took so to take a photo that was good enough to convey a message to the audience. clearly you are upset by looking at this image, which is something Kevin wanted us to feel.If you're saying that he did this for money, then clearly you don't know your facts because after he won the prize, he committed himself. So don't say that he didn't care about the child because he did everything he could to change the world.

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Farooq adil[June 21, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-48329)

well-said. people name it professionalism, actually it is barbarism. That pic almost took my soul out. It is the effect of two- dimensional stuff, and what kind of that fellow was who saw the living three dimensional stuff and it didn't awake human in him. This rotten professionalism sense be damned.

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penny fox[June 21, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-48351)

Exactly, if it was his own child would he stand there watching the vulture and child and make sure he takes an award winning photograph. Easy to do when its not your child, out of mind out of site, yes you reap what you sow.

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Lisa Greene[February 5, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-41052)

A picture is worth a thousand words. This proves it.

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sarah[March 27, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-21777)

how the hell would you know that- were you there? I doubt it, so keep your sweeping statements to yourself

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Kelly[June 8, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-24819)

Oh. You were there?

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remiaan[June 24, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-25483)

Read the article... "A vulture landed behind the girl. To get the two in focus, Carter approached the scene very slowly so as not to scare the vulture away and took a photo from approximately 10 meters. He took a few more photos before chasing the bird away.”

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Ella Karnser[September 25, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-30725)

If you're so smart, why don't you just use the right words to reprimand someone huh? Prey tell! Come on, even I know that's wrong and I'm only 13... Research on one photograph, you think that is going to have all the legit information. Yeah, no-one should "feed off of bull crap" to feel smarter, but nobody should reprimand people for it either. Next time you come on here, Megan Carter, give me a call and tell me why I'm wrong

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megan[September 25, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-30790)

'Prey tell' in other words 'please do tell' nothing wrong with that phrase, maybe a few more years on your belt would teach you that. Can't and won't judge a 13 year old for not understanding perfectly accurate English. I think that people are judging without the facts and as I have all the negative pictures of that trip to see the hours before during and after I have way more information that you in order to shine light on the truth. No need or desire to call you, thanks.

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chris[February 6, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-41134)

Actually, it's "pray tell." As you say, just use the right words. I would amend that to say "correct words," but no matter. Interesting misuse of words in this case, though, I'll admit.

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ILNJ[November 5, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-33180)

Megan I'm so sorry about your father. He was a great photographer. You have every reason to be very proud. I'm sure you were one of the best things in his life. I hope you understand that his sadness had nothing to do with you. I hope you have the life he couldn't have.

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Moe's Opinion[February 9, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-41276)

Your father's work is incredible. I despise any person sitting back in their comfortable chair who would dare criticize his work or his actions. He made the world aware of the horrors going on at great risk to himself...God bless him and his tremendous contribution he made! You have all rights to be very proud of his memory!

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[Glen](http://GypsieWindsPhotography.com)[April 4, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-44339)

Megan, I have a part time photo business, not photo journalism, I try to focus on the positive things that can bring more appreciation to life. That being said I have experienced myself, and seen through others eyes, a great degree of pain and the emotional damage that can come when a person is invested in others and truly cares about others.

This world can be a horrible place, and there is nothing worse that I know of than innocent people victimized by other people or circumstances that are often created by people that have no trace of human concern for others.

I became aware of kevin Carter's work a few years ago, and I have to say that his photos are some of the most disturbing I have ever seen. The emotional impact does not go away. You cannot unsee the images of human desperation and suffering.

That impact, despite the criticism, is what gives those images power. If good photography is about emotional effect, these images are some of the best that have ever been taken. I am not talking about financial value. The comments that focus on that show an unbelievable degree of ignorance and shallow thinking. In their defense some people simply cannot handle things that are emotionally disturbing. That is OK but but the attack on others out of ignorance is not.

Do they think that what Kevin did was about getting rich? His life's record proves that was not a motivation.

Many have condemned him for not putting down his camera and immediately helping that girl. If he had done that what would the result have been? Would that little girl have been any better off the next day? Would anyone have benefited beyond the few minutes he was on the ground?

The effect of that photo and others he took had a lasting effect. People could not look at those images and just turn away, stick their heads in the sand, and go about their business as if it never happened. HE MADE A DIFFERENCE, AND THAT IS MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE DO IF THEY LIVE THREE TIMES AS LONG AS HE DID.

He was a hero in an industry that has a lot of exceptional people. He accomplished some good in this world and that is the highest standard there is.

Was he messed up? Yeah, who wouldn't be after experiencing what he had. That doesn't make what he did any less important. Awareness is the first stage of benevolence.

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[Sandi](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com)[June 26, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-48570)

Hi Glen, thank you immensely for bringing the best perspective to the dialogue. I woke this morning with deep thoughts of my concerns and concluded with gratitude for the many things for which I'm blessed. Then, I reflected on the photo by Kevin Carter that touched my very core from 1993 when I saw first saw it. The need to concretized my thoughts led me to research the photo on the internet and encountered this exchange. I'm reminded of being "sighted without vision". Thank you for your inspiring vision. Have a great life!

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Bill OBanion[November 7, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-33268)

A blind man could not see any picture and so must only consider the facts. Try closing your eyes to what you see and have learned, especially those of you whom sit on your sofa watching the brady bunch eating left overs and drinking an iced tea made from the abundant supply of fresh drinkable running water available in every room of a home these people can never imagine exists in their wildest dreams, just as your golden paved streets running across the heavens lined with ripened fruit trees whose branches are home to beautiful white doves, also does not exist, and if it does may your God have mercy on your soul, while he would no doubt in my own mind give it to this man who at least did something unlike you. A man who invested his talent, forfeited his mind and dear soul to capture a photo that inevitably most likely (now this is just my assumption mind you) very likely stirred action and motivated many organizations to donate to the cause, give supplies, send medical personnel or other help as well as countless millions of dollars of donations from United States who then pressured other governments to follow suit, all in all combined couldve then summarized that with this photo he saved millions of lives there in that same community where this little girl that would have died no matter what from what I'm understanding was portrayed.

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Aron[December 12, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-35543)

You are so right,because without photographs like these we would have no idea of the horrors mankind can inflict on itself ,and by seeing these we learn to be better . It is one of lifes tragedies that the photogrpher was unable to reach someone and get help. Depression is the silent killer.

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Tim[December 31, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-37416)

would anyone with ANY type of comment for or against the article please ask the girl if she cares,

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Priti[August 19, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-51516)

I'm in India and today I attended a talk on photo journalism. I think what Kevin Carter did was incredible. It is very sad that after bringing to the world pictures of the truth whilst we sit on our comfortable couches he gets flak for his work.

It's because of people like Kevin that that the truth is known.

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I am not a good person yet[December 10, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-63147)

Honestly, yes it was probebly heartless of him to take a picture and not help the little girl, but thanks to that we got to have a picture of what the current state of the world is really like. "why didnt he help her?" is such a stupid question, ask yourself how many times you passed by a homeless person and not help them. Helping one little girl wouldnt have changed much, but thanks to this picture we've gained awareness and it will hopefully influence people to do something.

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Lanie[February 16, 2017](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-67960)

He did. He couldn't help further because he was constantly surrounded by soldiers making sure he didn't interfere.

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greg[January 3, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-16543)

what to make of the human race

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Helen[January 23, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-18029)

Has touched my heart and head in a way no other medium has. I know other children suffer even in this country. Yet I do little or nothing. Shame on me, shame on us.

Helen

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shelley[August 1, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-26959)

This same photograph inspired me to get off my ass and help. We who have money spend it on NOTHING important... Just registered at Save the Children to donate monthly. I won't miss it, and hopefully, it will help, even if a little bit. Imagine if each of us who posted a comment were to do that - even if it's just $35/month or less even, what we could do to help children like this baby girl. Put your money where your mouth is - you'll feel better - otherwise, why are we even here?

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Megan carter[September 6, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-29579)

Good on you once you do something you get a say those that sit and do nothing do not get to preach. My dad always said "do something or just be quite while I do" rip Kevin carter I know I vented in the above comment but I get so sick of people judging my dad when he sacrificed his lively hood to make this world a better place and still so long after his death people still don't get what he did. We are here talking and the better ones.. Are actually doing something.. That was the point.. So thank you

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Sharon Lafitte[September 26, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-30834)

Megan, this is a social site. Where anyone can post their opinions. It would be very difficult for me to read negative comments about my father and because of that, I would probably keep from looking. To respond in such a way to a 13-year-old girl is ridiculous. It takes away from your credibility. Regardless, I can't imagine what your father experienced. It's easy for many to judge without being there. We also are given the impression by this one photo that there was only one malnourished, struggling young girl, when in fact there were many. Photo's like this are powerful and necessary for the masses to see, as difficult as they are.

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megan[September 28, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-30911)

While i understand what you are saying - it is touchy for me and i dont intend to read these anymore. if someone is going to be rude and attack my English - which has got nothing to do with anything and which was just strange - i will repond. Also if we are all aloud oppinions - then i include myself, so am intitled to have one. I agree with Cam's comment above and I am entitled - and in a lot of ways feel obligated to share that VERY SAME oppinion. It got heated between the two of us only because he attacked - and like i said "i cant and wont blame a 13 year old.." but i'm human and i will argue my point back. As many people do here - goes back and forth and often gets very heated - its a heated conversation.

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Tamra John[February 8, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-41194)

Megan its the first time i have seen this photograph and it really touched me just as the photographer your father wanted it to .

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greg[February 1, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-18518)

I keep looking at this picture. I think of this little girl every day. she is one of many but this photo has changed my way of thinking. I feel a need to help. I'm sad for the photographer too.

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[farmerboggsLaura voggs](http://gravatar.com/farmerboggs)[March 5, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-20590)

I am thankful carter took this photo, least we all continue to ignore the consequences of our actions on this planet. It is easy to blame cater for not "helping" her, but harder to blame ourselves for creating her.

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[Timmy](http://gmail)[March 19, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-21308)

Its true he chased it that's y he suffered critics from ignorant people

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Zook[March 23, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-21533)

Kevin Carter was showing the world how bad things really are ,manic street preachers, Kevin Carter song, say,s it all, this man , was mentally disturbed with what he witnessed, he needs to be remembered for showing the world , how children are starving too death, Kevin Carter, r.i.p you did nothing wrong, far zook

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dee[May 3, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-23292)

I wonder if he would have felt that way if that was a Caucasian child? Funny how the whites in South Africa does not have the same problem as the blacks. Disease, poverty, segregation! Just cruelty toward people who have embraced them after all that they have done to them, murdered, hanged, raped, forced into slavery, stolen from there land, language, food, their true history, black males called boys even at 60-70 years of age. The destruction they have done to the black race.

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Des Paton[May 4, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-23335)

Saw that picture tonight for the first time and though that who ever had taken the picture had saved that baby. I was wrong.

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Human bieng[August 4, 2019](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-235212)

Your right in my opinion because if kevin carter hadn't took the picture then the world wouldn't get what's going on. The concerns for the child was only raised because the photo has been revealed to the public.

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Terra[May 18, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-23886)

Absolutely eye opening. This is just sad beyond words and beliefs. I pray that child survived and is safe.

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nick[June 3, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-24403)

He did not care. He was after a picture? Not saying I am any better. I coululd be there in 12 hours and save a kid in a similar situation!

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amir[June 5, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-24613)

you can not judge pepole when you are in same level ...

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Araze1993[July 25, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-26618)

Easy words from a man sitting in front of the computer, why haven't you went to africa and saved at least one kid there then?

If you actually read up on things a little, you would know that he was prevented by the local soldiers to interfere with the situation there.

Not to mention at that stage of starvation, eating food without medical preparations would cause death by the refeeding syndrome, and i doubt they have that kind of food at hand.

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megan Carter[September 25, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-30792)

Exactly

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Jason Y[June 1, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-47267)

Dear Megan,

I read your father's stories by chance and then I google it more detail about....

I do tell at first I have similar stupid questions in my mind but after reading more about your father, I do feel sorry about him. and I am sure you feel proud of him and what he did for the people..

It was always ironic for the good people being judge like that, misunderstanding, prejudice, pride...etc, and I try hard not to make conclusion with just impression....

I know you suffer a lot from all the things they criticized on your father. and really hope that my comment would comfort you a bit.

From my point of view, your father is a hero, not just for Sudan, but also brave enough to voice out to the world.

Best Regards,

Jason

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megan Carter[September 25, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-30791)

So then please go. He saved up his own cash to do so, and if you think you can do better for the people of Sudan, or anywhere for that matter, go..go..go!! he used his medium to shine light on something that billions didn't know about at that time and in the end saved millions of lives because of it so if you have any better ideas or feelings then go help, the world certainly needs it.

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[Sandi](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com)[June 26, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-48571)

My Dearest Megan, your Dad was not only sighted, he was blessed with vision. I saw his photograph from 1993 and it has stayed with me ever since. He UNDERSTOOD more than most of us. I am absolutely sure that for those with a soul, your Dad's photo has had a profound and lasting effect. The fact that it evokes dialogue 23 years later speaks to its immense value, and it shall until the end of time. It's the reason that it earned a Pulitzer Prize. Be grateful that you bear the genes of such an insightful person and one who affected the world. We need more Kevin Carters. In a year when people throughout the world are demonstrating such regression - Brexit/Trump/ISIS/xenophobia ......, we should do well with the reprint of your Dad's profound work on the cover of every newspaper globally.

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[corestarme](http://corestarme.wordpress.com)[June 5, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-24607)

Cast the first stone, those who are without sin. Choose peace at all times. We are all imperfect. We are all love-able. Life happens.

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sean como[September 15, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-30216)

Why cast the stone in the first place? Guilt?

I cannot think of any reason but to hide humility!

Most situations don't need any of us. Why do we crave these situations?

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Ernest[March 28, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-44039)

That means no one should cast a stone because all people possess sin.

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amir[June 5, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-24612)

he did not save the kid , but he saved so many more after that / not by his own a

hand by his shoot

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Manoj Gautam[June 17, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-25251)

This picture is so shocking and disturbing. I dont know why Kavin Carter took this picture. But he certainly exposed the horrrible reality and that is commendable. I feel guilty of living in this time when I survived enjoying plenty of food and water while someone like this girl, who is human being like me, struggled and crawled on ground to get something to eat.

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Josie Smith[August 24, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-28429)

Carter was a photojournalist. He told stories with pictures. I don't presume to know how it is in any other country but my own, until I see shots like the one above. This picture ultimately helped in part to bring the famine in the Sudan to the attention of the world. Those of you who spew your criticism at him for this one shot, have you looked at any others he took? He threw himself into situations the rest of us would not. The violence in South Africa during Apartheid. The famine and unrest in Sudan. If I wrote a story for a newspaper and said, "I saw a starving girl crawling to the food tent and there was a vulture behind her waiting for her to die so he could feast", would not have the impact of seeing the photo. The photo captured on 9/11 of one of the victims who had jumped out of the window. Should the photographer have tried to catch him at the bottom? Of course not. But that photo and Carter's photo above spoke volumes as to what was happening.

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Megan carter[September 6, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-29574)

If only people could have shown such compassion and bravery towards him in his difficult time the way that he did for everyone who entered his space at any time, this world would be a better place because with him in it, people would be more kind, thinking with their hearts, even if, like his they were too soft and too big "made of yogi Bears' as he once said to me as a little girl. I guess he was trying to explain how he felt obout a world he couldn't fathom. But as his baby girl and I must say I am beyond proud to be his daughter.. I didn't get what he was so worried about.. gummy bears and my little ponies ruled the world.. Perhaps that's why we got on so well at the end of the day I just wish people got over a debate that is not a actually a debate at all but instead a personal perception..So why don't you all go out there yourself?? I mean if your so concerned why don't you go do something for these poor children???? Not meaning go do what he did which lets face it is super scary and is not for the faint hearted.. But it is insulting to people like him for you to sit back and take judgment as your weapon and just chill at home and pass judgement on someone who put his life on the line everyday to make this world a better place. All he did was have hope for a better world and he thought he would use his talents to shine light on the traversty that was happening around him and he Tried every day to make his footprint a better one than he felt his fellow men's were. He got up off his pharmacitical ass and did something about it. Yeah that seems like a crap idea. Dunno why he did that.. He should have stayed behind the counter and put his thoughts on the back burner and played house house like the rest of us. What an idiot:

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[Cam](http://Rarehistorical.Com)[September 11, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-29908)

Carter was ripped to death by human suppression guilt and human insanity

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[Cyberat Rodent](https://plus.google.com/117203426602914171612)[September 18, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-30389)

Feeding the hungry is a temporary patch, terraforming & teaching them to manage the land & animals, that is a permanent solution.

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Chimi Bulus[November 9, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-33391)

Carter was to some extent right because I see no reason why the humanist should accuse him of not helping the girl . He was a journalist and he performed his task which is to inform, because of that noble task the world came to their aid.

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gachora[November 25, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-34304)

It's a very difficult job to be a journalist and particularly a photo journalist. Since no one remained to give an eye witness account the best is to see the bigger picture and root cause(s) of such human suffering and do something about it. Injustice through discrimination, marginalization and outright murder of perceived enemy lies at the base of so much suffering across the world. Aided by evil and dictatorial regimes whose focus is to keep power at whatever cost. Sudan is just one such a country.

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bea[December 15, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-35822)

I had no idea hunger was a disease. what an ignorant excuse to not help a dying child. He killed himself because he knew he was wrong and that's why he died broke. smh.

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BRS[December 16, 2015](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-35896)

I don't care what he did, even if he stepped over her. His photo highlighted the famine in Africa thereby saving thousands of lives in the process.

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cheyanne[January 20, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-39682)

wow this is inspiring never new there was so much starvation in the world that the valtures have to eat us humans

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Karen[January 23, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-40031)

I think he brought reality to us what we don see everyday but happens.

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Jason Wong[January 23, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-40111)

This photo along with its story has scarred my heart in such an unimaginable way. This photo evokes so much emotions to the problems happening day after day. My heart also grieves for Kevin Carter. The unique yet tragic of Carter is so indisputable. He has shown the world a powerful photo of the issues that have been yet to conquer. He suffered a life with guilt, economic, lost, and his own photo. I'm glad that I encountered this photo. It has given me a perspective of the world. Let us thank Carter for uncovering the blindness and may he be in God's hands.

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YIHAN[February 14, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-41577)

I read this piece of news about one year ago .

At that time I was just shocked by this photo----something frightening that could not be described filled my mind.I believe many people's first reactions when they see this photo were the same as mine.After that the world began to focus on this problem--the issues of those poor children in Africa . Almost everyone at that time praised the photographer for bringing such an important and pressing issue under spotlight.

However, not after long , some people ,some people started to attack Kevin Carter for his selflessness . They said he could have had time to rescue the girl and brought bring her the a safe place , booth just wasted time —very precious time to find the best spot of her suffering .They scolded him and took him as the selfish and cold-blood photographer who just took this photo for his own good in order to win fame and fortune , that referred to his Pulitzer Prize for that photo .

All of a sudden , this brilliant photographer and the Pulitzer Prize winner found himself falling from glory . Nobody treated hi as a hero anymore . What’s more , people thought up a new name for him ‘another vulture’.Yet it seemed that nobody had once remembered his career and duty that he was a photographer just like his partner who took another photo of the same scene. The only differences between them was that Kevin got the Pulitzer Prize but his parter did not . Their job is was to try their best to take a photo perfectly demonstrated the circumstance of those Africa children.They all knew that only these kind of photos can truly touch people’s souls and arouse their awareness towards this issue.

After I did some research of this event , I dug something deep inside

discovered something new about him and found that he was completely mistaken misunderstood . Just beside the stone in the photo , the girl;s mother was right there collecting food at that time and the bracelet other wrist showed that she had already received humanitarian aid . The girl was safe for because two photographer guarded her nearby . However, this plot was not not shown on the picture in order to draw more public compassion . They drove the vulture away immediately after the photo was taken and ensured the girl was safe before they left .

The judges who decided to give him the Pulitzer Prize all knew that . Then how come could Kevin not be able to explain himself ?

To our surprise, the answer to this question is rather simple . The reports and articles on newspaper and TV were fake . Some of which were just made up by some media companies for the purpose of getting this event more controversial in order to have more audiences .The fake explosive fact and extreme indignation towards this man under the spotlight were the effect that they just expected in order to get more benefit for it.

Eventually, they succeeded . About one month after the photos was published , Kevin killed himself in his car , which brought his family,friends and those people who respect and believe in him suffering in great pain ever since .

I felt rather sad about what he had experienced and ended up with , meantime, I also hope nowadays people can be more cautious with the reports towards somebody which were read or heard from media . What they have shown to us may not be true and we need to have our own critical thinkings towards such similar events , trying our best just to prevent another tragedy from happening in the same way again

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[fatema](http://google)[February 20, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-41951)

According to me It's a very sad story and everyone should read it.

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Ngadla[March 17, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-43398)

The truth about how difficult journalism is can found through their book "The bang bang club." of which the detailed assignments they took not only in Sudan but all over where they had to do and the sacrifices they did in order for us to learn the other side of life is depicted in that book. The only contribution these critics can do is to buy and read that book and understand how the likes of Ken Oorsterbroek and Carter have encountered through their life of which without them the picture taken"The vulture waits" couldn't have been the subject of the conversation.

May their souls rest in peace

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Ashley[April 12, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-44590)

Dear Carter family,

Even if Kevin had adopted this girl, and given her a life of health, education and wealth, this would only have benefitted one single person. And saving any life is admirable.

But Kevin, through his image, most likely saved hundreds of thousands of lives, making him in effect one of the greatest humanitarians in world history. This image will have played a role and will continue to influence humanitarian operations across the globe.

You can be proud of his work, and he should be remembered as a hero for his positive impact on this planet.

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Darrin[April 13, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-44641)

And what have any of us done to help. We are just as guilty as the man taking the picture.

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loosethoughts[April 22, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-45021)

Forget about who took the photo for a moment. Let's talk about what we've done to help people like this since the photo was made public and if it was really enough.

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[pablose](http://chss.uonbi.ac.ke)[May 28, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-47102)

This picture brings tears to my eyes! It is a sad beginning and ending too..really mysterious...probably the little poor girl died and the photographer took his life at the end..too bad, life is truly tough.

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somiyo Keishing[June 18, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-48219)

really feel bad, I mean not the man nor the girl child, but the things that had happened to both was a huge lament.

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[Arthur](http://mathematics.uonbi.ac.ke)[June 22, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-48376)

Photography is a powerful way to begin a revolution if only the world will notice and channel resources to a specific goal hunger will be something in the past

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[Enock Markinga](http://cebib.uonbi.ac.ke)[June 23, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-48417)

That picture has always been depressing, even for me.

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Mojisola Olayemi[June 23, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-48437)

The picture almost took my soul away too. But I'm glad he took it, and I saw it. I awakened a sense of responsibility in me to help people arou d me who are in need. I have been very hungry before. Now I have plenty of food. The dawn of hunger is just beginning to break, even for some Americans, the land of plenty. I challenge you to look beyond what is readily visible, and I challenge you to help. $2.00 extra on canned foods everytime you do grocery, over 6 months, will surprise you. Get out with company on a cold winter morning, and you might just find who needs the food. I am an immigrant from Africa, with a college degree in Physics and Statistics, now self-employed. I almost dies in college, because of very little food to eat. I appreciate this picture, beyond what I thought was possible. It pulled a lot of cords in my subconscious. This is my first time of seeing the soul-rattling picture, and it just changed my life. I will do all the little I can to serve those around me. They are everywhere, not just in Africa, or back in 1993. This is now.

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S JAGAdheesan[July 16, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-49605)

He thought that the girl should die,before she could starved

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Aloke[July 20, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-49814)

that was the most common things those days in Sudan... its a rare pic for rest of the world but NOT for the Kevin who just captured d reflection of what's happening there in Sudan those days. He just did what a great photographer supposed to do, i.e. to show the world the real stuff... all those guys who feel pity for that girl N abusing Kevin must introspect about what good they r doing even today when around 20% world population is malnourished!!! when you cant do anything good, just keep ur mouth shut rather than abusing a great photographer!!!

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Lindsey[July 25, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-50021)

To those who are saying he was selfish for taking the picture... Photography is not a money-making career. The poor man killed himself in part because he had no money. And any photographer knows that it is your images that will live on, not any kind of fame for you. So no fame or fortune, the man took a picture of something negative because it had an impact, a meaning. Art is supposed to make us think, and he did this extremely well. I don't see any of you trekking out to Africa to help any starving children. He who is without sin...

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Diana[July 28, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-50163)

Carter did a lot for me. I am going to look into fostering a child in Sudan. There has to be a way I can do this.

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Artur[July 31, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-50314)

He was a professional in his field.

If I were in his shoes I wouldn't give two hoots about ethics either and just live for the perfect picture.

And as was already stated in the article he was in danger of catching the famine by helping her, so I don't see why everyone is being so harsh with him, especially since he committed suicide afterwards anyway due to depression.

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Brenize[August 1, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-50354)

I think that he did a wonderful job. Everyone was touched by the photograph; it is an extremely good example of a photograph that stresses the terrible situation these people had to face every day. Definitely making me aware that this is no joke people are dying and need help. If you don't send any support to the hungry you are the vulture looking down and waiting for people to starve.

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kim miller[August 19, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-51525)

oh my,i only saw this today and my heart bleeds. your father showed me a message that will forever haunt me but i know he didnt see harm come to this girl,he wanted to show the possible terrible harm many like her faced. iv experienced family suicide too but i can only imagine the pain in his heart and now yours. i send my love sincerely xx

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kim miller[August 19, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-51528)

I am not a child,i am a fully grown woman and i am ashamed i never knew of such things happening,i grew up in a very bad situation,very bad,compared to this mine is nothing. Keep strong and know that experiencing these things are too much to bear,it wasn't to hurt anyone else especially you i am sure. No one with any compassion could bear the experiences without being deeply effected. Sending you all love and strength. xx

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R.[August 25, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-51862)

For all the people blaming or supporting Kevin Carter must watch- The Bang Bang Club movie in order to understand their situation, thinking & perspective. It would help u all to understand and judge him/them better!

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TRUTH[October 8, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-57019)

The thing is, this guy was told not to touch anyone there because there was a disease going around. If he wanted to get the photo, he had three options.

1\. Take a photo and leave

2\. Take a photo and, shoo the bird away, and leave

3\. Or take a photo, shoo the bird away, help the girl, and then leave

For the safety of him and anyone else who might get the disease if he touched the girl, he chose option #2.

You really can't blame him.

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Glen[October 8, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-57062)

The health concern in situations like this is not just for the visitor. Visitors may be carrying a disease they have an immunity to and are unaware of. Isolated people may not have the immunity and in their weakened condition from famine even a cold or flu virus could be deadly.

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Ben[October 21, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-58495)

Many have criticized Kevin for his actions or the lack there of. My question to everyone who has now viewed his picture, what are you going to do about it? It is easy to point blame when others fall short but if we do not act ourselves than we are just as guilty. The sadist part of this reality is that there are thousands, if not more, children who are suffering and people like you and I just sit around and complain without any desire to act.

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Nas[October 23, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-58630)

I thank everyone who contributed positively to this story God in His infinate mercy and compassion will help you all in your moment of grief and pain.

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Vanna[November 3, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-59955)

Kevin Carter was a photographer. That pretty much clears that his job was to show the world about the situation of Sudan. If he would have been with the UN, it would've been his duty to help. Here his duty was to open our eyes to the world around. He did so. Plus it's so very easy to criticise and comment on others. What if you were forced to feel guilty without a cause? So think before you speak, write, show and type you criticism.

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sly[November 7, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-60371)

Megan, ua father was a good photographer, but he acted inhumane on this pic, what if it was you, wld he have photographed you or saved you? his actions caught up with him en led him to his own death karma

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Paula[November 8, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-60447)

Kevin did his job. His job was an extremely hard job because he had to see the worst of humanity. I am thankful that he was strong enough to do his job and do it well. The picture he took brought awareness to a horrible situation. Children were dying all around him and he knew that his job was to photograph what was going on so that the world could help. What did any of you who criticize him do to help any of the children? How sad that everyone can put their heads in the sand and pretend that children are not dying everyday. Kevin Carter was a remarkable photographer, I can't tell him that now but I hope his daughter knows the truth.

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Megan Carter[November 9, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-60574)

I wish I never commented on this thing. No point in arguing with people who don't know all the facts. If anyone knows how I can get off this thread please let me know. Thanks

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Desaree[November 23, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-61662)

what have all you people that left a comment saying that he did nothing what have you done for anybody what have you done for this girl maybe not this particular girl but one in her situation stop judging people are sickening

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Karen Waterfield[December 3, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-62305)

To everyone commenting that what he did was wrong, how many of you wouldn't had been the wiser about the conditions of such a place had this not been captured? How many of you have lifted a finger to go over to help these people? My guess none! So shut the hell up! It was his job, it's a dirty job and he did his job well. The fact he took his own life demonstrates that the emotional line was crossed, my prayer is that he has found his peace at last. I know if it were me, I certainly wouldn't have the guts to do this but maybe the point of this image will burn into your minds making those of you who complain about not having a fancy car etc to stop and appreciate the things you have, this could had been you, this could had been your child..

She is someone's child and it's a very sad image but thank God he took this photo to bring awareness to the cruel reality of that part of the world we so easily ignore.

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Debra Funk[December 5, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-62416)

As he said "no joy". After reading so many comments of judgement against him, "no joy" statement is so understood. What has hardened the hearts of so many in their quick judgements, when they were not there, what supports their opinions of so stated as fact.

It saddens my heart to see the ones of hardened hearts with quick and non-factual statements. Statements which added heartbreak and hopelessness to the one who had the heart which was so full of sadness for others that broke.

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Desaree[December 7, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-62720)

To be honest I think it's sad that people are judging this man they have no idea what he saw or what he did. I wonder if all the people making judgments have done anything for the children of Sudan or for the children anywhere for that matter. When you want to judge take a look in the mirror.

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Judith Hume[December 15, 2016](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-63559)

He was a true hero, to me, because he went there and took this photograph to show the world what was going on. After he got the shot, which is definitely worth a thousand words and then some, he shooed the bird away. He clearly was not doing this for the money, because he didn't end up with much money, and he did it at his own peril, because in the end, taking photos like this was so painful he killed himself. Megan Carter lost her father, and the world lost a great photographer, and a great human being. May he rest in peace.

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Jay B[January 4, 2017](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-65717)

It was not Carter's job to save the child. We are currently living in an age of "Fake News". Well it doesn't get any more "real" than this. If you do complain about fake news and how big journalism is nearly dead, then you don't get to

complain when big J actually gets it right and shows you Real News, red in tooth and claw. This shot is the result of a man doing his job correctly and exactly as he's supposed to according to the rules of journalism. I long for a return to the days when journalists weren't so obvious about making up their own rules as they go along. If you want activist journalism, stick to Buzzfeed

Anyway, this is one of the most important photos ever taken. It's perfect as a photo qua photo and succeeds on every artistic level. It's also a vital document in the history of journalism. When is "too much" too much? Would this photo be published in 2017? Carter killed himself in 1994. Imagine the hate and blowback he'd get now in the Twitter age. These are important questions. This image challenges us at our most basic level. Which is exactly what great art and photography ought to do. If it offends you, good. That means it succeeded.

And let's face it, the child was doomed. Either there at that moment, or days, even hours, later. And if it was his child, of course he wouldn't just stand there and of course he'd be outraged by such a photo. I'd be as well. I'd also take this shot. Without hesitating. If that makes me a hypocrite so be it. Every once in awhile you need to be a hypocrite.

Thank you Kevin Carter for this photo. It's timeless and horrifyingly beautiful.

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KTS[January 6, 2017](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-65843)

This is sad on so many levels. There are no winners here.

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Victor[April 20, 2017](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-73355)

Its hard to be in such a situation where helping you could become a victim yourself easy'ist way to is by the only way he knows how taking a photograph for all the world to see hopefully other countries get invovled and help solve this crisis. he became a victim of not of violence but of the public's view on what he should of done when they themselves haven't got a clue to what you risk you have to take to let the world know whats really going on. critizizing the one person who truely did help in the only way he knew how. RIP Kevin Carter

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Russ[May 19, 2017](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-75572)

For those who criticism the photographer; ask yourself is it we the rest of the world that you are disgusted with. We ignore these scenes, we avert our eyes pretending they don't exist.

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Emmanuel[June 13, 2017](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-77237)

That is a sad story, very touching, thanks Kevin Carter for revealing whats happening out there, Please Donor Agencies help to alleviate hunger, wars, poverty. rest in peace to the Little Girl and Kevin Carter, hope met in heaven, may God be with you.

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Queeney63[July 5, 2017](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-78810)

What was he supposed to do..... Give her a snickers bar? What about all you Judgy people.....what are YOU doing to help the starving beside pointing fingers at others for not helping? Pretty sure he took his life because he was so berated by guilt over "perfect" people judging him. Sad for humanity.

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J. F.[July 11, 2017](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-79162)

I'm sorry for Kevin but am angry at his silent indifference shown through his callous action of not helping this child. Once he got the shot, human kindness and decency would have compelled any person having such to help this child. This photograph yanks at my heart, not because the vulture is waiting to prey on her, but because of actions or inaction of people like Kevin on a global scale, is what has led to this poor child being in this condition. This photo, Kevin is exactly a reflection of the ugliness at the throbbing heart of this world. Get what you need and walk away, consequences, rape and pillage be damned.

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Ade Ward[November 5, 2017](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-87481)

It's easy to criticise and moralise from the comfort of a warm home and with a full belly. Kevin Carter would have seen hundreds of scenes like this in the preceding days and hours, and would have taken hundreds of tragically moving photographs. Insulated from this grim reality in our comfortable homes, we can have no idea of the moral choices presented in such circumstances, so should be careful not to rush to moral judgements. Photojournalists work in dangerous and troubling parts of the world to expose tragedy and hardship so that the rest of the world can act. This photo brought the plight of the Sudanese to a global audience and so Kevin Carter did his job. There is still famine and strife in Sudan and South Sudan - the question you should be asking yourself now therefore is, now you know about the situation in Sudan (thanks to photos like these), what are you doing to help to alleviate it?

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frank[December 5, 2017](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-89053)

The photograph made me cry! That poor kid! Where is humanity?

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Jan F. Rasmussen[April 26, 2018](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-104191)

You can blame Kevin Carter for not helping the child after (or instead of) taking the picture, but she heartbreakingly looks beyond help already. As for not chasing the bird away immediately, there is no point. It will not harm her until she is dead, after which point she will not care, and it would probably return anyway. Should he have killed it, you think? It would hardly have been fair on the Hooded Vulture, it was not guilty of anything.

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Jai[May 22, 2018](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-111832)

I am not sure what would I have done! May be Option 3(or may be 4 with some changes in the 'plan'). Or take a photo, shoo (or shoot) the bird away, help (pick her along if that was an option) the girl, and then leave, even at the risk of getting infected?

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Gachora[May 23, 2018](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-112143)

I go with taking the photo, shoo the bird away, take the girl to the closest point of help even if that would mean her dying in the hands of caring company. And yes, getting an infection while helping save her life is many times worth it compared to committing suicide due to depression.

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Jai[May 23, 2018](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-112145)

Yes, Gachora! That is my option#4 and even I feel that would have been a better, humane course.

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Gachora[May 23, 2018](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-112146)

Yes Jai. I worked in South Sudan (formerly Southern Sudan) for 4 years and even spent time in this village of Ayod. There's no dignity in dying from depression for observing "safety" standards when we know that we shall all die and have options to do good to humanity even if that means dying while (or because of) doing good to others.

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yusof[November 30, 2018](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-150479)

At least that photographer was better than us.we sit on a comfortable place and say why didn’t he help her??? what are we doing for someone like her???!!!

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mj[March 10, 2019](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-198137)

Without the camera and the photographer we would have less understanding of the situation depicted , and of life. I am grateful to Kevin Carter for the work he has done and Megan should know that many others feel the same about his legacy. I sense that those critical of him may not be the people who would help you out when the chips are down. Megan should be proud of her father's work which help inform us of the complexities of life.

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Mari[April 24, 2019](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-214377)

What I find so interesting is, we all judge and criticize because we are not that person. We were not there. We all talk the big talk of what we would have done. We criticize and judge from our human perspective....but this I do know for a fact, those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

We humans think it is "our right" for every little thing. There is such a thing as too much entitlement.

He didn't have to help that little girl. He didn't have to take that picture. He didn't have to do anything. And this is a 100% fact, the only thing every living being has to do on this Earth is die. That's it! He took a picture and he profited, ok. That is what he chose to do. He also scared off the vulture after 20 min. He didn't have to do that. How many of the ppl commenting here actually do anything for people unfortunate than them not nearby their home? How many do it in devastated areas, in another country? How many people get out of their comfort zones to help people less fortunate?

All I am saying is, leave judgement and criticism to God/The Universe/A higher power. We are no one or nothing to judge because....those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones......

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JJ[January 22, 2020](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-265680)

Just now learning of this sad news. Looks like it was a long time ago.

Judging by his suicide note, it seems to me there was a lot more going on in his life than just the haunting of all of the atrocious images that he had to witness throughout his career as a photographer (that girl/ vulture scene included). There was also child support (prob alimony too) being forced on him despite his money problems. So it looks like he had apparently fallen victim of the shameful, radical feminist system imposed in society that oppresses men in modern times -- often forcing them into suicide or into losing their sanity and committing an atrocity, like murder-suicide. This man only chose to escape reality by taking his own life. He obviously did not feel loved... plus all the people judging him for doing his job to inform ungrateful, narrow minded people of the worlds ugly side and injustice.

Women want the world all for themselves. I say we give it to them, sit back and see how they can handle the heat.

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JDK[August 2, 2020](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-285041)

For those who are criticizing the photographer, my question is, where are you? You are probably sitting in an air conditioned comfortable home with a full refrigerator and a big screen TV. You know there is suffering in the world, yet do nothing about it. You are aware of the suffering In part because of photographers like this gentleman who took the photo. He was actually doing something in horrid conditions to share the miserable plight of these unfortunate people. You on the other hand, you people who are critical, sit in your comfortable homes and judge others without all of the facts. My suggestion is to go to someplace in the world where suffering is rampant, help someone in need, then come back to judge someone else.

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Aaron Angikisanga[January 23, 2021](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-318361)

Not only Carter who fail to save this child... This sitituation of suffering is all around the globe and nothing was done to help those poor people.. We all fail at times with our decisions. Carter is doing his job, he followed rules due to disease spread. Anyways... There are time to live and a time to die, we all have opinions here but nothing can be done, just occupy ur time with the understanding that this is not the last, a lot of work is yet to be done, do good to others when u have the chance to.

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JG[February 18, 2021](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-326833)

In my opinion this is a extremely good image and creates emotion witch ultimately is the purpose of art. i see the comments and I'm confused. If you want to talk bad about this picture than take a better one. Its not to easy to go to Sudan and do this especially with a deadly disease going around, and yet he still chased the bird away. this is the kind of photography that takes patience and hard work. this isn't posing for an Instagram photo. this is one of the hardest things a photographer can do and he sacrificed himself for it too. in my eyes it is no different than the "terror of war " taken during Vietnam. it moves the audience and shouts out the cruelty of the world. I think people don't like this photograph because they simply don't accept this fact.

I think we should honor his legacy not criticize an unchangeable moment. I know I say this while sitting in a nice house in a rich country therefore I acknowledge the struggle and difficulty others must go through. someday I hope to be able to help those in need and i hope one day the pictures of children in Sudan will be of them playing in beautiful landscapes not suffering. this image was meant to inform people persuade them to help fix this awful mess known as the world.

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Glen[February 19, 2021](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-327109)

I agree. The first step to change is knowledge, even when we don’t like what we learn. If you don’t like what you see, help prevent this from existing, don’t just condemn the photographer. If it touches your heart, congratulations for being a decent human being.

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Buykapi[April 5, 2021](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-340766)

Well said JG.

To all you armchair judges who think Carter should have ‘done something’; exactly what do you think he could have done? ‘Saved the child’? How exactly? Take her away from her patents to his home to Johannesburg? Take her back to the feeding station from where she’d just come? And what about the hundreds of others dying who were also right there? Should this one man have saved them too or ignored them (then to be criticised for saving only one)? And what of her parents, do you think they’d have been happy with a strange man picking up their child and... taking her away? (Actually it was a little boy, it was often mis-reported).

How about doing some research before you pass your judgment? He borrowed money to get the plane to report on the tragedy of famine in war-torn country, risking his own life, as he had done many times before in his work. He had 20-30 minutes to do his job before the plane left. He was apparently accompanied by armed soldiers and under strict instruction not to interact with the famine victims, not least because of the risk of spreading disease. The child was near a UN feeding centre, and the wrist band an indication that she was already being helped by the centre. So he did his job; he got the best image he could get to tell the story, to capture our attention. It took patience, as good photography often does. He then chased away the bird and left. The child survived for several years before dying of a fever. His image highlighted the plight of millions to an ill-informed world. And you dare to criticise the man?

Souplesse, all you folk who think you have the right to judge and know so much better what he should have done than the man who was actually there at the time, do share with us, what exactly should he have done? and before you answer that, do please share with us all what YOU have done to help people dispossessed by war and famine.

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Donna Clark[June 1, 2021](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-356355)

What disease did this child have other than starvation? This child looked totally done in. It must have been a miraculous recovery for her to recuperate enough to continue walking. Don't blame the photographer. No matter how briefly, the parents left her alone to go to the food. Just by being present he saved the child from being attacked from the vulture. It would have been nice if someone had had some water to give her.

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Me[May 3, 2022](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vulture-little-girl/#comment-447171)

For all those adversely commenting on the photographer, what are you doing to eradicate the hunger of these kids? At least he tried to create awareness. He did that much. You knowing the facts, do nothing but criticize. You are definitely worst off than him. So stop criticizing.

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