Roll over in your grave.
I am completely outraged. People are sending this email around with a picture of a child practically on her death bed. There is a vulture waiting in the background ready to feast on this starving child who looks like she would die at any second. Apparently the guy won a Pulitzer for it in 1994. AND The guy doesn't know what happened to the child because he left the site after the picture was taken. What is wrong with this?
This photographer apparently commited suicide 3 months after this photo was taken because he was in such a great depression. UM, DUH! Wouldn't you go into a depression if you knew you could have reached your hand out to this child instead of taking his picture on his death bed? Wouldn't you have trouble being in your own body and mind know that you didn' t do everything you could for this human being? No wonder he committed suicide.
I realize that many of these pulitzer prize award winning pictures are taken so that the world can open its eyes to our atrocious world. But I don't understand it. These people are being photographed living in inhumane conditions and these photographers are winning awards, getting recognition for them and a monitary sum for it? Why not follow murders around and photograph their acts? Maybe because you would go to prison for it? No, instead go to these third world countries, photograph these starving people and leave... Just like Kevin Carter did.
Why don't we spend more money on a war that is NOT ours? How much money was spent sending out troops into places we didn't have any business being in? How much money was spent on the fancy parties that the political jackasses go to to promote themselves or celebrate a new victory? Probably plenty of our tax dollars. and enough to feed every mouth in this world.
The vulture in the picture was there because of its basic instincts for survival. What was Kevin Carter's excuse?
Many of these photographers do what they do to help promote and educate people like me about these issues to help bring relief to them. But who am I to judge? Maybe this guy did do everything he could to help these people. I was angered because the way it was worded and the way his journal described it. They made it seem like he just snapped the picture and left. I just don't like the idea of people getting awards for this type of shit. Yes, let us recognize this situation and bring relief. Let us thank these people for bringing reality into our homes and hearts. Why don't we put the efforts that we would take to award a prize like this into bring more relief? Is it worth an award? Is it worth the recognition? Maybe. Is it worth the 10k? Sure. Give it to that little girl who layed practically crippled from hunger. I'd take it a thousand times over and summit that photo if i could give that little girl the money. But Kevin Carter? Even he didn't know what happened to that little girl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter
This photographer apparently commited suicide 3 months after this photo was taken because he was in such a great depression. UM, DUH! Wouldn't you go into a depression if you knew you could have reached your hand out to this child instead of taking his picture on his death bed? Wouldn't you have trouble being in your own body and mind know that you didn' t do everything you could for this human being? No wonder he committed suicide.
I realize that many of these pulitzer prize award winning pictures are taken so that the world can open its eyes to our atrocious world. But I don't understand it. These people are being photographed living in inhumane conditions and these photographers are winning awards, getting recognition for them and a monitary sum for it? Why not follow murders around and photograph their acts? Maybe because you would go to prison for it? No, instead go to these third world countries, photograph these starving people and leave... Just like Kevin Carter did.
Why don't we spend more money on a war that is NOT ours? How much money was spent sending out troops into places we didn't have any business being in? How much money was spent on the fancy parties that the political jackasses go to to promote themselves or celebrate a new victory? Probably plenty of our tax dollars. and enough to feed every mouth in this world.
The vulture in the picture was there because of its basic instincts for survival. What was Kevin Carter's excuse?
Many of these photographers do what they do to help promote and educate people like me about these issues to help bring relief to them. But who am I to judge? Maybe this guy did do everything he could to help these people. I was angered because the way it was worded and the way his journal described it. They made it seem like he just snapped the picture and left. I just don't like the idea of people getting awards for this type of shit. Yes, let us recognize this situation and bring relief. Let us thank these people for bringing reality into our homes and hearts. Why don't we put the efforts that we would take to award a prize like this into bring more relief? Is it worth an award? Is it worth the recognition? Maybe. Is it worth the 10k? Sure. Give it to that little girl who layed practically crippled from hunger. I'd take it a thousand times over and summit that photo if i could give that little girl the money. But Kevin Carter? Even he didn't know what happened to that little girl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter
posted by Jenn & John at 12:05 PM
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Just to play devil's advocate, because I like to, and because I think it's a good point, why not think of it this way:
If the photographer had not taken the picture, people would not have been informed of the tragedy of that little girl's life. What's more tragic, a little girl dying and no one NOBODY knowing about her, her life, and what she went through; or the little girl dying the same way and other people knowing about it? I think it's a bigger tragedy that NOBODY would've known about it if the photographer hadn't done his job. For that reason I think he deserves SOME acclaim; for bringing everyone else the story of this girl and her death. It would be more tragedy if no one knew about it...
Depending upon who you ask, we have PLENTY of business being in IRAQ... and when I mean BUSINESS, I MEAN BIG DOLLARS. Get this:
A friend of mine that I play in a big band with, (he's about 45 or so.) He works for JPL as some kind of rocket scientist, working on the mars rover.. some crazy shit like that. He has been in the Special Forces reserves since his twenties. He has been to IRAQ for three tours, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and many other hell holes on this earth. When he was in IRAQ, he got paid $1500 A FUCKING DAY to guard Halliburton installations. He would go for three months and come back with over 100 grand. Now, if the American government guards Halliburton installations for that kind of dough.. what kind of dough is Halliburton making, restructuring and building that fucking country? Oh, we've got plenty of business and investments in Iraq. It makes me sick to think that people are profiting off of a war, and this so called campaing to bring 'freedom' to the Iraqi people. But we've also learned in every history class we've taken, that those who lose the war pay for it, $. I'm sure we've made money restructuring Germany after WWI. Restrucuring Japan after WWII, etc etc.. It's not a new story in my mind.
By the way, this friend of mine has been shot 3 times. He's rid a hummer when it ran over a landmine, and literally blew his ass the fuck out of the hummer and broke his shoulder. Crazy ass. He's a trombone player...
Go figure...
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