Are photojournalists vultures?

[ecstatic]

Journalist Kevin Carter didn't bother to help this dying child. In fact, he didn't even concern himself with the outcome. Isn't it ironic, in his image he captured a vulture waiting for the child to die--but in many ways, he is the vulture.



Photographer Frank Fournier did nothing to save this child after the mudslide.

[theoldman]

1. How do you know that they did nothing to help the children?

[ecstatic]

2. They admitted it, when asked questions about the fate of their prey

Ooops, I mean, their subjects.

[Dora]

3. Do you have a link that backs up your accusations?

:shrug:

[Robb]

4. I don't think the pay scale justifies "vulture"

They do it because it's their job, and they're good at it. The really good ones honestly believe it's more important the image get out there than anyone's life be saved.

Including their own.

[Finder]

5. More to both of these stories...links provided

Both of these men should be respected...

Frank Fournier
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/seeingandwriting3/interviews/interview4.asp

That is what had happened to Omayra. She had been swept down the valley. When I reached her, it was about 6:30 in the morning. I tried talking to her. She was confused about what had happened. She could remember that she had been in her house and that she had been to church, but after that, she could not remember a thing.

According to local people, Omayra was now about a mile away from her house. She had been pushed along with much debris against a hill on the edge of town. Among the debris was a lot of corrugated metal along with sections of homes and parts belonging to coffee warehouses. Not only was she stuck, trapped from the waist down by a huge amount of weight that was putting pressure on her legs, but according to a villager who was at her side, she had also been perforated at the hips....

more at link

Kevin Carter

http://picturenet.co.za/photographers/kc/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter

He later confided to friends that he wished he had intervened and helped the child. Journalists at the time were warned never to touch famine victims for fear of disease. This criticism and the death of a close friend, Ken Oosterbroek, who was shot and killed in Tokoza on April 18, 1994 while covering township violence, may have contributed to Carter's tragic suicide. On July 27, 1994 Carter drove to the Braamfonteinspruit river, near the Field and Study Center, an area he used to play at as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. The last person to see Carter alive was Oosterbroek's widow, Monica. Portions of

Carter's suicide note read:

"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & 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."