Hunger

[donnashuggy]

My favourite pic today

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[azureline**]

One thing is for certain, the only person who really knows, is Kevin Carter.

There are stories that have been disputed, there are diaries that have been disputed. No doubt suicide notes as well.

No one thing can be responsible, it can be a combination of things.

[cherry*135]

instead of copying  and pasting an article by whom?  

The journalist who wrote that article is named in the link. A journalist with 35 years experience, who has worked in different parts of the world.

I read the whole article - detailing Carters life from a young age till his death. I quoted the last line of the suicide note which is very relevant.

One would expect a family member to have a clouded view.

How many times do you see parent/family member  saying in the media their 'son is a good boy' when the son has just been arrested by police for serious assault/ murder or other serious offences on another person?

You are entitled to your view, it is not mine.

[vicr3000]

One thing I don't believe is the criticism of his photo / award.
Smacks of jealousy to me.

[cherry*135]

Going by his journalistic history, failed to hand in assignments on time, poor photo's that can't be used, left film on plane and couldn't recover it and other details in that article.. I can see why the child photo could be called a 'fluke'.

example : Perhaps as importantly, while a few colleagues had framed the scene perfectly, Carter was reloading his camera with film just as the executions took place. "I knew I had missed this f--- shot," he said subsequently. "I drank a bottle of bourbon that night."

[bluecat*dancing]

One thing can be the trigger though, the last straw, the catalyst. As far as I know, the suicide note has been authenticated. No one here has said that there were no other contributing factors but to blatantly disregard the affect that his work had on his psyche is nothing short of being obtuse. There were other factors that contributed to his death but his work was definitely one of the main ones.

[bluecat*dancing]

You obviously have not seen any of his other shots?

[vicr3000]

Yes, read that. Surprised he didn't have 2 cameras anyway.

And didn't have a new roll in, when he knew the executions were coming up.

It's like magazines on guns, you change before you know you are going to use a lot.

[bluecat*dancing]

My dad always said that his worst fear as a photographer was to run out of film at the crucial moment.

[raptor_rebooted]

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

You obviously have not seen any of his other shots?

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obviously

[cherry*135]

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

You obviously have not seen any of his other shots?

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I thought the comments  on his work stemmed from the child shot (differing views posted on that photo, which were shot down) posted here earlier? And his subsequent suicide not much later after he won the Pulitzer Prize?

I can see that the tragic death of his colleague and his g/f asking him to leave the place they lived in and sort himself out  would be major factors in him taking his life also.