The Famous Photographer Who Took His Own Life After Taking One Photo

The rise and fall of Kevin Carter

Reginald Ben-Halliday
8 min readOct 1, 2020
A photo of “The Struggling Girl” Courtesy of allthatsintersesting.com

TThe picture above of a vulture and a starving child is a famous photograph by Kevin Carter. The photograph became known as “The Struggling Girl” and depicted the Sudan famine in 1993.

In this photograph, the child (believed to be a girl) was attempting to reach a…

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