Death Anniversaries
3 years ago
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Pulitzer Prize 1994
I came across this image yesterday. Disturbingly powerful -- for the child about whom nothing is known; because the picture could have been taken as easily yesterday as 13 years ago; and, as fundamental, because I can't wrap my head around how the photographer could simply walk away. It's been haunting me since I first viewed it. Click on the image to read the text more clearly.
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There's a really good, but difficult, book called "The Bang Bang Club". I was actually reading it one of the summers we went to New Melleray, and read the majority of it at the monastery. It was probably good that I was in a quite, reflective place.
Anyway, the photographer of that photo was one of the four in the "club" -- they started off photographing in South Africa. The book is written by the remaining 2 members of the "Bang Bang Club" (after Kevin Carter's suicide and the death of another photographer). It is brutally honest about the decisions they made while photographing, and is quite good.
Thanks. It goes on my Christmas reading list.
I bought the book. It's going with me to Antarctica. Will be the first book of 2008.
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