"It may be difficult for people to understand, but as a photojournalist my first instinct is to make a photograph. As soon as that job was done, and the child moved on I felt completely devastated. I think I tried to pray. I tried to talk to God, to assure him that if he got me out of this place, I would always . . . I would change my life." Kevin Carter

From "The Death of Kevin Carter" an Oscar-nominated documentary about the life, work and suicide of a Pulitzer-prize winning South African photojournalist.

From http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5241442

Kevin Carter belonged to a small group of photographers who exposed the brutality of apartheid via the images he took. He was the first to take the picture of "execution by necklacing" -- where a rubber tire filled with petrol was hung around a person's neck, then ignited. Initially, Carter had grave reservations about taking the shots.

"I was appalled at what they were doing. I was appalled by what I was doing. But then people started talking about those pictures . . . then I felt that maybe my actions hadn't been all bad. Being a witness to something this horrible wasn't necessarily such a bad thing to do" Kevin Carter

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A22083301

Cater ended up committing suicided July 1994, about two months after winning the Pulitzer Prize for the photography of the child in Sudan -- he was 34 years old.

Kevin's life raises some questions:

What sort of witnesses are we?

What does it take for us to change and act?

What role does faith play? How come some of us break, like Carter?

Why do some of us remain indifferent?

Is knowledge sufficient for us to care and act?

Do your experiences with your environment affect you and the choices you make?