The Vulture and the Girl (Kevin Carter)
Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 – 27 July 1994)
The Vulture and The Little Girl, 1993
FoI: Politics, Power, and Justice
GIobal Issue: The effects of Famine. (Zero Hunger UN SDG)
Kevin Carter's photograph, The Vulture and the Little Girl, first appeared in The New York Times
on March 26, 1993. It shows a famished child who has slumped in the foreground with a hooded
vulture watching from nearby. In March 1993, the child in the picture was said to have been
trying to reach a United Nations feeding center in Ayod, Sudan, and to have survived the ordeal.
The image was awarded the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. Carter committed
suicide four months after receiving the award.