Kevin Carter

Kevin Carter. Does the name tick anything to you? Have you ever heard of him? I, myself never had, until yesterday, when I saw a photo taken by him.

Kevin Carter was a South Africa born photographer. He grew up in a middle-class family. After early struggles in his life, in the year 1983 he decided to become a journalist-photographer. In March 1993, while on a trip to Sudan, when Sudan was suffering from feminine, he took a photograph of a vulture waiting for a little girl, who was going to some feeding center, to die. That picture alone took him to instant limelight. In 1994, that photograph won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. But that was not the beginning of the story, it was the beginning of the end.

He suicided in the year 1994 leaving a suicide note that says....

"I am depressed... without phone.... 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 [one of his friend] if I am that lucky."

On the Children's day (14th November) absence of that kind of people is felt very much. We will not forget him. Children are the gift of God, we must take care of them, need to take care that such situation should never take place. And no more people like Kevin Carter had to kill himself for such things.