1994年7月27日，普利策奖得主、南非摄影师凯文-卡特被发现死在他的小货车内，显然是自杀身亡，终年33岁。1993年，卡特赴叛乱中的苏丹拍摄，期间拍摄的上面这幅作品为其赢得了普利策奖。而当时拍完这张照片后，卡特点起一支烟，念着上帝的名字放声恸哭。

Kevin Carter & His Prize-winning photograph in Sudan
凯文-卡特与他的获奖摄影

Kevin Carter was born in apartheid South Africa and grew up in a middle-class, whites-only neighborhood. As a child, he occasionally saw police raids to arrest blacks who were illegally living in the area. He said later that he questioned how his parents, a Catholic, "liberal" family, could be what he described as 'lackadaisical' about fighting against apartheid.
凯文-卡特，摄影记者，生于种族隔离严重的南非。拥有中产阶级家庭背景的他居住在只有白人的居住区。幼年时，他碰巧遇见警察强行逮捕非法居住于此的黑人，他后来说，他质问自己基督徒出身、强调“自由民主”的父母：怎么可以对反抗种族隔离如何漠不关心？

Carter had started to work as weekend sports photographer in 1983. In 1984 he moved on to work for the Johannesburg Star, bent on exposing the brutality of apartheid.
1983年他成为一名体育周刊的摄影记者，84年转到《约翰内斯堡星报》工作，致力于揭示种族隔离的可怕。

In March 1993, while on a trip to Sudan, Carter was preparing to photograph a starving toddler trying to reach a feeding center when a vulture landed nearby. Carter reported to taking the picture, because it was his "job title", and leaving. He came under criticism for failing to help the girl.
1993年在苏丹的旅途中，卡特拍下了一个饥饿的小女孩艰难地爬向食物救济中心，而一只秃鹫正巧停在一旁的照片。他本着职业原则，拍下了这个瞬间后就离开了那里，后来却因没有伸出援手救助女孩而饱受非议。

The St. Petersburg Times in Florida said this of Carter: "The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering, might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene."
佛罗里达州的《圣彼得堡时报》这么评价卡特：“这个男人只顾摆弄镜头，获取最震撼的灾难场景。漠视救援让他成为了图片中的另一个掠夺者，另一个残酷的秃鹰。”

Sold to the New York Times, the photograph first appeared on March 26, 1993. Hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask the fate of the girl. The paper reported that it was unknown whether she had managed to reach the feeding center. In 1994, the photograph won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
照片起先卖给了《纽约时报》，于当年3月26日首次出现。此后成百上千的人联系报社，询问女孩的命运。报社方面对女孩是否抵达救济中心，得到救助，一无所知。1994年该照片荣获普利兹奖。