9The Famine in Sudan (1993)
Photo published in March 1993 in the “New York Times” and responsible for Kevin Carter’s rise as a photographer. In 1994, Kevin won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography.
Although the picture is impressive, the vulture was not as close to the boy as the picture suggests – a fact that continues to cause controversy among journalists and photographers. The boy in the photo was called Nyong Kong and survived the vulture; he died in 2007. Kevin Carter, the photographer, was killed in 1994. Photographer: Kevin Carter.
