2The Famine in Sudan (1993)
Photo published in March 1993 in the “New York Times” and responsible for the rise of Kevin Carter as a photographer. In 1994, Kevin won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography. Although the picture is impressive, the vulture was not as close of 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, died in 2007. Kevin Carter, the photographer, was killed in 1994. Photographer: Kevin Carter.
