1994年7月27日,普利策獎(jiǎng)得主、南非攝影師凱文-卡特被發(fā)現(xiàn)死在他的小貨車內(nèi),顯然是自殺身亡,終年33歲。1993年,卡特赴叛亂中的蘇丹拍攝,期間拍攝的上面這幅作品為其贏得了普利策獎(jiǎng)。而當(dāng)時(shí)拍完這張照片后,卡特點(diǎn)起一支煙,念著上帝的名字放聲慟哭。

Kevin Carter & His Prize-winning photograph in Sudan
凱文-卡特與他的獲獎(jiǎng)攝影

Kevin Carter was born in apartheid South Africa and grew up in a middle-class, whites-only neighborhood. As a child, he occasionally saw police raids to arrest blacks who were illegally living in the area. He said later that he questioned how his parents, a Catholic, "liberal" family, could be what he described as 'lackadaisical' about fighting against apartheid.
凱文-卡特,攝影記者,生于種族隔離嚴(yán)重的南非。擁有中產(chǎn)階級(jí)家庭背景的他居住在只有白人的居住區(qū)。幼年時(shí),他碰巧遇見警察強(qiáng)行逮捕非法居住于此的黑人,他后來說,他質(zhì)問自己基督徒出身、強(qiáng)調(diào)“自由民主”的父母:怎么可以對(duì)反抗種族隔離如何漠不關(guān)心?

Carter had started to work as weekend sports photographer in 1983. In 1984 he moved on to work for the Johannesburg Star, bent on exposing the brutality of apartheid.
1983年他成為一名體育周刊的攝影記者,84年轉(zhuǎn)到《約翰內(nèi)斯堡星報(bào)》工作,致力于揭示種族隔離的可怕。

In March 1993, while on a trip to Sudan, Carter was preparing to photograph a starving toddler trying to reach a feeding center when a vulture landed nearby. Carter reported to taking the picture, because it was his "job title", and leaving. He came under criticism for failing to help the girl.
1993年在蘇丹的旅途中,卡特拍下了一個(gè)饑餓的小女孩艱難地爬向食物救濟(jì)中心,而一只禿鷲正巧停在一旁的照片。他本著職業(yè)原則,拍下了這個(gè)瞬間后就離開了那里,后來卻因沒有伸出援手救助女孩而飽受非議。

The St. Petersburg Times in Florida said this of Carter: "The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene."
佛羅里達(dá)州的《圣彼得堡時(shí)報(bào)》這么評(píng)價(jià)卡特:“這個(gè)男人只顧擺弄鏡頭,獲取最震撼的災(zāi)難場(chǎng)景。漠視救援讓他成為了圖片中的另一個(gè)掠奪者,另一個(gè)殘酷的禿鷹?!?/div>

Sold to the New York Times, the photograph first appeared on March 26, 1993. Hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask the fate of the girl. The paper reported that it was unknown whether she had managed to reach the feeding center. In 1994, the photograph won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
照片起先賣給了《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》,于當(dāng)年3月26日首次出現(xiàn)。此后成百上千的人聯(lián)系報(bào)社,詢問女孩的命運(yùn)。報(bào)社方面對(duì)女孩是否抵達(dá)救濟(jì)中心,得到救助,一無所知。1994年該照片榮獲普利茲獎(jiǎng)。