Blog #9: Influential Images

The photograph is shown in a rural area with a vulture watching a child who is starving for food due to malnutrition. Yes there is color to the photograph. The subject in the photograph is a vulture specifically watching a young child bending over in a rural area. The photographer did not help the child because it is said those children carry diseases. So the photographer instead stood there watching the vulture. The subject matter was spontaneous explained in the context of the photograph. The photograph did have an emotional impact when I first saw it. Some of the emotions that triggered me when I saw the picture were sadness, grief, and shockingly full of silence. The emotional response that the photographer was most likely trying to invoke was sympathy for the starving child. The photographer did not match my emotional reaction. I believe that the photographer was trying to make a statement because the concept or idea that was trying to be portrayed was should you or should you not help a defenseless person in the time or need. I think the photographer was successful in translating the sympathy of the photograph without even realizing it. I come to the conclusion because of the context in the caption of the photo because it was discussed that the photographer took his own life eventually after being haunted of the memories. 

Starving Child and Vulture