What if he wasn't there?

I would start this by asking a simple question "What if he wasn't there?" Would the scene have not

happened? Is the problem the fact that he showed first to the world what is happening? Wasn't the child saved by his presence while he was there until the mother came for her child?

Why would the mother leave her child in danger? Is she forced to get food so both of them don't die? Her child would probably be a liability as the squabble for food in camps are horrific. I myself had to stand in que for an asylum permit. Can you control starving people? Where is the government that should help its people up, who are the vultures feeding on the the minds and bodies yet shout freedom but can't provide or sustain the paths to Liberty?!

I realise that people can't handle the truth so they lynch those who shame those who are responsible. Reporters are just the tools for bringing news. If not for them countries would be invading and smothering people for gold and diamonds. Look to the West, look to the South, look to the North on what is happening in the East. As people we want to be safe but hate it when the realities of safety is brought to light. The mistake that Carter made was to leave this world, he made a mistake in not taking a picture of himself with the mother and the baby so the world was reassured that there is a God that in certain moments leads a human being to save his creation. Yes his picture is cold but so is the reality of the world we have come to know. The picture also speaks volumes to me as regards to his demise. He too was that child and the vultures came. Every journalist feels like that child who was left just as that mother who was left to fend for food to keep them both alive. If you know the nature of vultures they seldom attack if there is an opposing force on the scene. They are cowards who pray on innocent heads who may not have the knowledge or skill to stand up for themselves.

We see people being killed in broad day light and wonder why wasn't there someone to help or prevent yet when that someone doesn't show what they had done we have very little respect for it. Should Carter have placed a picture of himself with the baby being saved we would have still said "he staged it." Can one really satisfy the greed of the public yet can't handle the effects?

I can accept one person attacking another but if you look at the event in "Aluu" Nigeria where a whole community committed murder through the hands of one youth against 4 boys, I can't accept that reality that we as a community are so blood thirsty. RIP Carter I feel your pain but the world hasn't changed yet. Today i saw on a page the following picture and again people are saying why didn't the person who saw and took the picture not do anything to stop the broad day light murder forgetting that he had already put himself under the danger of taking the murders actions. Did the person have anything but the camera on his phone to protect himself? Oh how we love to prosecute those who show or tell us the truth or those towards whom it is convenient and there will be no repercussion. Tomorrow don't ask why the world is full of lies, fakery and pretence, we love it.

How Photojournalism Killed Kevin Carter