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02-25-2015, 04:57 AM | #1 |
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| Unforgettable pictures...... I came across these pictures and found them so powerful..... http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-m...011#.xl4p98KmZ http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/t...013#.qqojgDxvN This one in particular is so heartbreaking. I saw this one months ago but I can't forget it..... https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2...lking-a-child/
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02-25-2015, 06:28 AM | #2 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Wow, SO many powerful images!! They had one in the first link, pic #10 of the infamous Haboob that happened here in Phoenix - it was UNREAL and so surreal...like Armageddon was coming.
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02-28-2015, 07:33 PM | #3 |
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| There are so many heartbreaking and compelling photos, but I think the last one you posted and the story behind it will haunt me for a long time.
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03-01-2015, 05:57 AM | #4 |
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| That particular picture is so unforgettable for me, it it truly heartbreaking.....I saw it almost a year ago and I still think about that little girl. I wanted to pick her up and save her so bad I often wonder if she made it.....I read the photographer got a lot of negative criticism for that picture. Some think it's what pushed him over the edge to suicide.
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03-01-2015, 07:28 AM | #5 |
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| It's so easy for people to judge when they have not experienced or seen what these photojournalists have witnessed. I wish someone could have helped that little girl, too. My second thought was how Carter could take that photo without helping her, yet I don't experience what these photojournalists see every day. It appears that Kevin Carter was a man who was troubled and often haunted by what he witnessed and also troubled from growing up in the times of apartheid. Everything about this story is tragic to me.
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03-01-2015, 09:19 AM | #6 | |
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03-01-2015, 06:00 PM | #7 |
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| I read that too. Kevin Carter witnessed things in his photojournalism that haunted him. He was already unstable when he took that photo. He had done so much already to document the horrors of apartheid and war, and this photo drew the world's attention to the plight of starving children in Africa. There is a short documentary about him and much to be read about his life. Not long before his death, he and his close photojournalism friends were photographing something near Johannesburg. He left for another appointment, but trouble brewed and his best friend was shot without him there. The death of his best friend Kevin was very difficult for him to cope with. At the time he committed suicide, he had a six year old daughter. In the documentary created about her father ten years after his death, she said something about her father that made me think: "She said that in the photograph of the vulture and the child she actually saw Kevin as the child and the world as the vulture. It was a very interesting perspective because a lot of people envisioned Kevin as the vulture, if you apply the symbolism of that picture to Kevin Carter's particular circumstance." The article went on to state: "He returned to South Africa in a state of despair and depression. Not only did he have to deal with the horror of the scene he had photographed, he was now at the centre of an ethical debate. The messenger was being shot at in a different way now. Had he done enough by bringing the plight of the children of the Sudan to the world's breakfast tables? He told friends that if he had the opportunity again, he would have helped the girl." "He was the photographer who saw too much. His was a cautionary tale that we whispered among ourselves about the dangers of becoming too sensitised to your subjects and to witnessing extreme violence." - Dan Krauss, who made the 2004 film The Life of Kevin Carter. "Every photographer who has been involved in these stories has been affected. You become changed forever. Nobody does this kind of work to make themselves feel good. It is very hard to continue." - James Nachtwey. "So many of these guys, after what they've seen, they become so tormented and they don't know where to put all this horror." - Amy Eldon, filmmaker and sister of Dan, a young photojournalist who was beaten to death by a mob in Somalia. "I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain, of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners... I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky." - Carter's suicide note. h2g2 - Kevin Carter - Photojournalist - Edited Entry I love photography, and I believe photojournalism is important work. Carter's Pulitzer Prize winning work, as well his other work, bring attention to the suffering and problems in the world. I couldn't do their work, nor can I condemn Carter for his photograph. I was both moved and saddened by both the photograph and the story of Kevin Carter's plight. Cincinnati World Cinema :: The Death of Kevin Carter
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03-01-2015, 06:32 PM | #8 |
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| Thank you Lisa for the additional info. The story behind the picture is just as heartbreaking as the picture. .....I will read your links. Thanks again.
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03-04-2015, 06:16 AM | #9 |
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| These are magnificent pictures. When you hear about the suffering in the world it can go in one ear and out the other in our busy day however, when one sees a picture of it, it stays with you and makes a imprint on your soul. The pictures by the APL at Christmas time of the pups that are abused and suffering makes me shed a tear every time they come on. I can't donate a lot but do.
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03-04-2015, 11:05 AM | #11 |
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| I know just what you are saying, the effect it has on me made me post above this today. In my case and probably you as well, we are looking at an animal that is pretty much helpless and, it's beyond me to think how someone could be so cruel and uncaring to not even give these dear little ones basic care. I think animal abuse should not just get a slap on the wrist but jail time.
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03-04-2015, 11:09 AM | #12 |
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| I might add a lot of scams out there though that want us to think they are helping the animals and are not. So always check (Snoops Truth Or Fiction) or Google 'could this be a scam'
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