How Did Kevin Carter Gain Power?
Power is the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events. Kevin Carter obtained power through demonstrating the third world problems first hand, documenting and sharing photographic power across the world. The most powerful of photographs, which was taken by Carter had a very devastating effect on his life. What he didn’t know at the time caused worldwide controversy among many tabloid newspapers and people in the world. Carter sold the image rights to the New York Times, on March 26th 1993. The photograph, which is now 22 years old, still holds that controversy and power that first enlightened the tabloid newspapers back in the 90s.
Kevin Carter, who was a South African photojournalist and part of The Bang Bang Club, he was in Sudan near the village of Ayod when he spotted the young toddler and the vulture. He found the small emaciated little girl struggling to make her way to the food station …show more content…
Yet the photograph that epitomized Sudan's famine would win Kevin Carters fame”. In May 1994, Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for the now famous photograph of the vulture stalking a child, now over a year from when it was taken. Carter couldn’t enjoy the prize because of his absolute regret of not helping the young little girl. Cater was consumed by the violence had had witnessed and haunted by the questions not only from the press, but also from the world. The photograph could not be unseen or deleted. Carter was not the only one to be affected by how the media responded, so did his daughter. She responded “I see my dad as the suffering child. And the rest of the world is the vulture”. The photography techniques used to take the photograph is analogue, which means there will always be a hard copy of the image though a negative. That negative can then be reproduced, copied and spread across the world. There was no escape for Kevin
Kevin Carter, who was a South African photojournalist and part of The Bang Bang Club, he was in Sudan near the village of Ayod when he spotted the young toddler and the vulture. He found the small emaciated little girl struggling to make her way to the food station …show more content…
Yet the photograph that epitomized Sudan's famine would win Kevin Carters fame”. In May 1994, Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for the now famous photograph of the vulture stalking a child, now over a year from when it was taken. Carter couldn’t enjoy the prize because of his absolute regret of not helping the young little girl. Cater was consumed by the violence had had witnessed and haunted by the questions not only from the press, but also from the world. The photograph could not be unseen or deleted. Carter was not the only one to be affected by how the media responded, so did his daughter. She responded “I see my dad as the suffering child. And the rest of the world is the vulture”. The photography techniques used to take the photograph is analogue, which means there will always be a hard copy of the image though a negative. That negative can then be reproduced, copied and spread across the world. There was no escape for Kevin