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Lucas
Most Things You Won't Learn In School
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Kevin Carter (September 13, 1960 – July 27, 1994) was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. He was the 1994 recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for his photography depicting the 1993 famine in Sudan. He took his own life at age 33.
He could no longer bear the images, the events. Some of his professional colleagues said that photojournalism killed Kevin Carter.He won the Pulitzer Prize for his work.
And then, in 1994, he took his own life. He could no longer bear the images, the events and the ridicule he received.
“Why didn't you do something?” people said.
He was doing something. He was making YOU aware of things YOU don't want to know.
Maybe you didn't know the photo above, but I'm sure the photo below, Kevin Carter's most famous work, you've seen it before.
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Lucas
Saddest Photo Through Out History
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This photo was taken in 1907 after Slavery was outlawed in most of the known world—but still being practiced as part of the Arab slave trade.
The British frigate had intercepted a slaving ship and freed several men.
This man was saved off the coast of Oman, just prior to being sent into longer-term slavery—by the skin of his neck.
The photo always struck me. It's one of the very rarest photos of someone being freed from slavery—literally.
This one always gave me the chills, and it’s because of the story behind it.This is a newly freed slave with a blacksmith cutting his shackle off:
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