Kevin Carter’s iconic photograph of a starving Sudanese girl, who collapsed on her way to a feeding centre while a vulture waited nearby, will always remain controversial because of the unintended suspense it creates.
Both the child and the vulture are still, but it’s a throbbing stillness, one that makes the viewer desperate for a second frame, and the other logically, the composition suggests only two possibilities: either the vulture feasted on the child, which the viewer feels certain was only a matter of time when the photo was taken, or it did not. But these possibilities don’t exist just as possibilities, they become loaded with emotion and turn into haunting questions.
In 1993, when the image was first published in The New York Times, most people turned to Carter, a South African photojournalist, for answers. The questions were not limited to the fate of the child but extended to Carter’s ethics. Why did he stand around taking pictures instead of helping the child? The questions then turned into accusations.
I've chosen this iconic picture because it made me think and think of the little girl who is there standing starving with no help, but it made me think of how it is going to be right now, in the present: Is she alive? Is she dead? Is she good and healthy now? What she thinks about the photo..? And many more. And it made me investigate about the photo.
Both the child and the vulture are still, but it’s a throbbing stillness, one that makes the viewer desperate for a second frame, and the other logically, the composition suggests only two possibilities: either the vulture feasted on the child, which the viewer feels certain was only a matter of time when the photo was taken, or it did not. But these possibilities don’t exist just as possibilities, they become loaded with emotion and turn into haunting questions.
In 1993, when the image was first published in The New York Times, most people turned to Carter, a South African photojournalist, for answers. The questions were not limited to the fate of the child but extended to Carter’s ethics. Why did he stand around taking pictures instead of helping the child? The questions then turned into accusations.
I've chosen this iconic picture because it made me think and think of the little girl who is there standing starving with no help, but it made me think of how it is going to be right now, in the present: Is she alive? Is she dead? Is she good and healthy now? What she thinks about the photo..? And many more. And it made me investigate about the photo.
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario