1) What year was it taken?
April 1980
2) What event was it depicting?
The 1980 Famine of Uganda
3) How did people react to its publication?
The publication brought attention to the nomadic people of Karamojong as well as the hardships they face due to border security, internal raids and the influx of guns and weapons which enable them to lead raids.
4) How does the photographer feel about capturing the image/ sharing it with the public?
Mike Wells was awarded the World Press Photo Award for this photo and admitted that he was ashamed. He didn’t enter the competition himself and was against winning prizes with pictures of people starving to death.
5) Why do you think this image has become iconic?
I believe that this picture was and is iconic because of the visual contrast in color and size of the subjects as well as the story behind the picture. The child’s hand is so small and seems as if it will shatter at the lightest bump. I agree with wells on the subject that it is a travesty to will prizes taking photos of people that are starving to death. If anything the prize should be donated to the people that are in pain and distress everyday not the person that captured that pain in a photo.
List the URLs of your sources at the end of your post.
http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/11/
http://iconicimages.blogspot.com/2010/10/famine-in-karamoja-uganda-uganda.html
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