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Desperate Hunger: A Heartbreaking Scene of Famine and Survival

This Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Carter captures a devastating scene of a starving child struggling to reach a food center during the Sudan famine in 1993. In the background, a vulture waits, symbolizing the harrowing reality faced by countless individuals. The photo reflects the compassion and desperation of the human condition in the face of extreme adversity.

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Desperate Hunger: A Heartbreaking Scene of Famine and Survival

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  1. What do you feel or experience as you view this image?

  2. Where do your eyes go and why?

  3. What are the key elements or features of this image?How do they contribute to what you see and feel?

  4. Are there any elements in the image that seem similar (e.g. shade, texture, size, color, etc.)Explain the effects of those elements on your response to image.

  5. When you examine the images and your emotional response, how do the color(s) or degrees of shading contribute to that response?

  6. How do your own experiences or knowledge affect your reading of the image? Think about the image in terms of context: personal, historical, technical, or cultural.

  7. Is there a story or narrative embedded in the image?

  8. Carter’s Pulitzer-prize winning photo shows a heart-breaking scene of a starving childe collapsed on the ground, struggling to get to a food center during a famine in the Sudan in 1993. In the background, a vulture stalks the emaciated child. Carter was part of a group of four fearless photojournalists know as the “Bang Band Club” who traveled throughout South Africa capturing the atrocities committed during the apartheid. Haunted by the horrific images from Sudan, Carter committed suicide in 1994 soon after receiving the award.

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