Hunger

[donnashuggy]

My favourite pic today

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[vicr3000]

We might not have kids as skinny as that but we certainly have them living and playing in the dirt like that with rubbish around.

Aboriginal communities.

[creative*crisis]

That's true and there is no excuse for that in this country

[j*oono]

This photo most likely helped raise thousands of dollars to help keep the feeding centres open.  

As horrible as it is, without photojournalists many world problems would not be known of.  I have nothing but respect for them helping to get the word out that help is desperately needed.

[vicr3000]

Well, I hate to say it but often that is how the parents like to live.

An actual example.

A remote outstation out of Maningrida, 100 or more kms, on the ? Blyth River.

3 Houses, 1 old School house (roof, concrete walls, no windows of course)

The Elder, an old man kept an IMMACULATE house and garden, clipped grass and all,

no rubbish anywhere.

The other two houses, brick, metal and a "car port" type arrangement.

The normal Red Dirt as the floor in the car port.

On our way back 2 days later just on dusk, we had shot a Buffalo to give them.

Stopped outside the house, all the family were sitting round a fire in the dirt in

the car port, kids crawling around in the dirt etc.

I was a bit "new" to this Aboriginal thing and asked one of the Aboriginals with us

- who happened to be the husband of one of the ladies there, why they lived

in the car port and was told that was what they prefer.

A bit the same in Maningrida except rubbish everywhere - tin cans, crisp / chip packets

but essentialy people sit around on the ground.

I see it in SOME other places I visit, not all.

[j*oono]

Yes I trotted out the old spiel, but as supernova said.  How many children was he supposed to carry?

Here is some more about Kevin Carter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter

[*pepe]

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@j*oono wrote:

Yes I trotted out the old spiel, but as supernova said.  How many children was he supposed to carry?

Here is some more about Kevin Carter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter

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i respect your right to your opinion.

[poddster]

.Has anyone shot any messengers lately?

[***super_nova***]

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*pepe wrote:

it beats me how anyone can call that a great shot let alone award it a prize.

a suffering dying child with a vulture hovering over it should never be seen as a photo opportunity.

He couldn't touch the child but he could have guarded her instead of trying different angles until he found the perfect shot.

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BUT he DID GUARD HER, and chased the vulture away when finished shooting.  However the vulture would have returned and more vultures would be all around, but so would be other people.  Scenes like that are happening all over the Africa's conflict/famine zones as we speak.  We just do not see them or know about them.

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*pepe wrote:

And don't anyone trot out the old spiel that he did it to highlight the plight of starving children

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The photographer was there to highlight the plight of starving children,  that was his job, and that was exactly what this shot would have done. 

I am not really sure what you are on about;  do you mean to say that such photographs should not be taken?  Would you prefer if people did not know?  Because it would mean that here would be less money to help people in these regions.

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[polksaladallie]

Now that everyone has had a good night's sleep, and with the exception of a couple of hard people, does anyone here really believe that, without incentive, that parents in that country would leave their extremely ill child sitting in the dirt by itself?

They hold their children closer than many parents in this country. 

The photo was as staged as any others which we see for similar reasons, and all of them are staged.

There have been billions of dollars raised without the exploitation of dying children.

Nowhere did I say that the photographer should have picked the child up.

I did not accuse the phoptographer of lack of compassion.

I stated what I would do, and have not lost my compassion overnight. 

[raptor_rebooted]

He couldn't touch the child but he could have guarded her instead of trying different angles until he found the perfect shot.

you obviously felt strongly enough about this 

topic to express an opinion - so why not make it

an informed opinion?  (i'm not having a go - its 

a genuine question)

the child and the photographer were being guarded.

they were being guarded by armed sudanese soldiers.

they were there while he was taking pictures in villages

full of starving people. they kept the photographers from

interfering.

sudan, 1993, civil war, famine - seeing the bigger 

picture?

And don't anyone trot out the old spiel that he did it to highlight the plight of starving children.

condemn first - ask questions later? 

that is not how its supposed to work.

what reasons do you have to believe that his motives

for going to sudan were different to what motivated

him to become a photojournalist in the first place?

opinions are great - uninformed opinions are pointless.