Photographer Highlight - Kevin Carter This week I would like to bring attention to free-lance photographer and photojournalist Kevin Carter. He is known for photographs taken with the purpose to expose and educate people of the injustice and brutality in Africa. Carter and his fellow photographers risked their lives so that they could capture these horrible scenes. His most notable photograph being a picture of a young, starving child stalked by a vulture. Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for this photo but weeks after this award he committed suicide (some say because he became so depressed from the violence and inhuman actions he had witnessed while photographing). Taken in Sudan 1993 ****All above information and photographs were found on the following website, visit this site for more information: http://biogrph.wordpress.com/article/kevin-carter-1x4qvbqoz9orn-89/ The trials and times of Kevin Carter and his fellow photographers while photographing in Sudan h
Many people muddle through life and forget to look at the little things. By the time you realize what you have missed its too late to regain the moment. This blog is here to make you think, make you wonder and, most of all, make you smile!
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