Elenamary

Thursday evening some friends and I piled into an SUV and headed down to the Ohio Historical Society to see the exhibit Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs.  With many of the photos I thought this is it, I am going to lose it and start crying, a few of the images that really touched me were, Tragedy by the Sea by John L. Gaunt, and I Am Not Ready To Die Yet by Kyōichi Sawada.

I wanted to stand still and cry at most of the images. The photographs stirred up this god awful pain.  The pain that begged me to give up and not finish the exhibit was the same pain that kept pushing me forward, to connect with the people and places.

When I finally did lose it, it was the photography By Kevin Carter titled Waiting Game, that pushed me over the edge.  The image is of a Sudanese toddler collapsing while trying to make it to a feeding center and a vulture waiting behind her.   Kevin Carter committed suicide three months after taking the picture.