08 feb / 18:32 av Anna Hibbs under:
INSPIRATION/PICS
Jag tror jag var fotograf i mitt förra liv, det finns få saker som berör mig så mycket som en cool, vacker eller sorglig bild. Bra fotografier berättar en historia, framkallar känslor och förmedlar den känsla som fotografen kände när denne knäppte av bilden. Någon gång ska jag verkligen ta en fotokurs.
The photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine.
The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.
The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.
June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, burned himself to death at a busy intersection in downtown Saigon to bring attention to the repressive policies of the Catholic Diem regime that controlled the South Vietnamese government at the time. Buddhist monks asked the regime to lift its ban on flying the traditional Buddhist flag, to grant Buddhism the same rights as Catholicism, to stop detaining Buddhists and to give Buddhist monks and nuns the right to practice and spread their religion.
While burning Thich Quang Duc never moved a muscle.
