This photograph became known worldwide with the title “The girl and the vulture” and was recorded in the village of Ayod, in Sudan, in 1993. It became a symbol of poverty and hunger that plagued some countries in the African continent and was published by the newspaper The New York Times. The author is the South African photojournalist, Kevin Carter, who received the Pulitzer Prize (the “Oscar of photography”) for the record. But the repercussion of the photo also brought numerous criticisms to Carter, many accused him of not helping the girl and of taking advantage of her suffering. The photojournalist went into depression and a year later, at the age of 33, he ended up taking his own life.
But there is another version of the facts: He went into a depression because he was in debt and without money to pay or rent. Unknown Facts ended up adding criticism for the photo and the suicide to give the impression that he killed himself exclusively because of it. Evidently, in his final hours he must have thought a lot about all the scenes of death and misery he witnessed, but without debt and with a stable financial life he probably would have died of old age, as his suicide note, which begins like this: "I I'm sorry, the pain of life goes beyond joy to the point where joy doesn't exist ... depressed ... without a phone ... money for rent ... money to support children ... money for debts. .. money! ...".