The Vulture and the Little Girl is a photograph taken by South African photojournalist Kevin Carter in March 1993 in famine-stricken Sudan, showing an emaciated child on the ground with a vulture positioned nearby. The photograph won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and drew intense public controversy over Carter's choice to photograph the scene rather than intervene directly, a controversy that became closely tied to Carter's own death by suicide a few months after receiving the award. The Vulture and the Little Girl is widely regarded as one of the most debated single images in the history of photojournalism, frequently cited in discussions of the ethical obligations of journalists witnessing suffering.
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1. The Vulture and the Little Girl (Wikipedia)
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which first appeared in The New York Times on March 26, 1993
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about a half mile away in Ayod, Sudan (now South Sudan), in March 1993
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The Vulture and the Little Girl, also known as The Struggling Girl, is a photograph by Kevin Carter which first appeared in The New York Times on March 26, 1993.
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