Heartbreaking photography

The most heartbreaking pictures i have ever seen in my life is the one taken by the famous photographer Kevin Carter, vulture and the starving child (above) that led to him committing suicide at age 33. I was 12 years old when I saw above picture for the very first time. Such a deep meaningful and heart breaking image. When some one explain to me  the story behind the picture I started to cry. For those who never seen this picture before, the large bird-vulture in the picture actually only eats flesh of dead animal. So basically it is waiting for the girl to die so that it can eat her.

When this photograph capturing the suffering of the Sudanese  was published in the New York Times the reaction was not all positive.Some people said that Kevin Carter, the photojournalist who took this photo, was inhumane, that he should have dropped his camera to run to the little girl’s and save her. The controversy only grew when, a few months later, he won the Pulitzer Prize for the photo. By the end of July, 1994, he was dead.Carter took a special assignment in Sudan, where he shot the famous vulture photo. He spent a few days touring villages full of starving people. All the while, he was surrounded by armed Sudanese soldiers who were there to keep him from interfering. Even if he decided to help the little girl, the soldiers wouldn’t have allowed it. In the age of 33 he committed suicide due to depression.He doesn't know what to do with his life,he don't know how to live up to the award he received and he has taken most heart breaking pictures throughout his photojournalism career which is more than enough to kill him deeply from inside.

I was 12 when I saw the picture and ask myself why he did not save the girl ? Just same question as everyone had in their mind.Later I get to know it's not for the sake of the photograph but he was surrounded by soldiers who don't allow him to interfere. However he showed to the world about those who suffering. That's the real reason I always wanted to be humanitarian. That is when i realised meaningful life is the life that useful and helpful for others.

 Up till today, we know many suffering in poverty and hunger. But it is just another news for us,because it's not happening to us. It is happening somewhere far from us. But somewhere some human is dying every second..and we are so called human too so we should be related in someway right? But what we can do..we cant afford to help everyone..we don't afford to help even a single person.

We are living such sad life where we only know about new version of Iphone launch date but we never bother to know about Unicef -sponsor a child programme,volunteer jobs,charity activities in neighbourhood and many more. All we can do is pray and ask God why there is so much suffering in world? Why do you allow so much suffering in the hope that God will never ask back the same question to us.
                        -HUMANITARIAN-