This stunning photo by Jayme Brown gives the illusion that the sky is gently whispering to the earth.
Whisper.
Category: Iconic Photos
Elephant Rock.
The Elephant Rock is a natural rock formation located on the island of Heimaey in the Westman Islands archipelago, off the south coast of Iceland.
Kevin Carter and the Famine in Sudan: A Photographer’s Heartbreaking Dilemma.
Kevin Carter knew the stench of death. As a member of the Bang-Bang Club, a quartet of brave photographers who chronicled apartheid-era South Africa, he had seen more than his share of heartbreak. In 1993 he flew to Sudan to photograph the famine racking that land.
Exhausted after a day of taking pictures in the village of Ayod, he headed out into the open bush. There he heard whimpering and came across an emaciated toddler who had collapsed on the way to a feeding center. As he took the child’s picture, a plump vulture landed nearby.
Carter had reportedly been advised not to touch the victims because of disease, so instead of helping, he spent 20 minutes waiting in the hope that the stalking bird would open its wings.
It did not. Carter scared the creature away and watched as the child continued toward the center. He then lit a cigarette, talked to God, and wept.
The New York Times ran the photo, and readers were eager to find out what happened to the child—and to criticize Carter for not coming to his subject’s aid.
His image quickly became a wrenching case study in the debate over when photographers should intervene. Subsequent research seemed to reveal that the child did survive yet died 14 years later from malarial fever.
Carter won a Pulitzer for his image, but the darkness of that bright day never lifted from him. In July 1994 he took his own life, writing, “I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings, corpses, anger, and pain.”
(Photo credit: Kevin Carter).
Iragi Girl At Checkpoint 2005.
Moments before American photojournalist Chris Hondros took this picture of Samar Hassan, the little girl was in the backseat of her family’s car. They were driving home from the Iraqi city of Tall ‘Afar.
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The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death, 1855.
Little is remembered of the Crimean War. This nearly three-year conflict pitted England, France, Turkey and Sardinia-Piedmont against Russia. Coverage of it radically changed the way we view war. Until then, the general public learned of battles through heroic paintings and illustrations.
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