Kevin Carter's Picture

This photo taken by Kevin Carter shows a vulture waiting to prey on a starving girl who was awaiting death. This photo too reflected on the terrible state of children starving to death and malnourishment. After Carter took and published the picture, netizens criticised him for not helping the girl and left him many negative and hateful comments. After a few months, he felt guilty and remorseful as he should have saved the child from the vulture since he was there to take the photo. He then committed suicide from depression and guilt.

We have many different points of view on this situation. Firstly, we feel that the people should be more understanding of his job. He is a photo journalist, and their jobs are to take pictures of what they are appointed to and not intervene in the situation. It was not his fault that he could not help them however bad he felt for them.

Secondly, we feel that by ending his own life, Carter could not change anything. He could have taken more photos and published them to create more awareness about Africa and at least try to make a difference to help the people there.

Thirdly, after looking at the picture we felt very sympathetic towards the children that are starving and felt that we are very privileged to live in Singapore. I think that Singaporeans should be more aware of what is happening around the world and not take our supplies for granted. Many Singaporeans, totally unaware of these situations waste many of Singapore's resources.

Other than that, we hope that the picture he took would raise awareness people who were oblivious to what is happening around the world and we hope to see more charity taking place for children who are starving all around the world. This way Carter would've helped the people in one way or another. He would have then sacrificed himself for a reason, to save hundreds of lives.

After all, as the saying goes, "a picture speaks a thousand words" we would never know the real story behind the picture as we were not present when the picture was taken. These are just our own thoughts and interpretation on the picture. In conclusion, we feel that we should be more aware of all these things happening around us, and always extend our helping hand to those in need. We have also reflected on treasuring everything that we have-about how privileged we are and that we should not make any foolish decisions, like what Kevin Carter did.