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One vulture waiting to eat, one vulture taking a picture. I don't see how a human being could take this picture. How could a human not have to heart to sweep that baby into his arms and chase off the vulture that is only doing what nature tells it to do. WHERE DO THESE JOURNALISTS COME FROM???

"Look mommy I got a Pulizter!"
"Did you help that baby at all?"
No
"Good boy."

Sorry, that photo just drives me insane!

Yes.

Actually, the journalist who took the picture was seriously criticized and a year and a half later, committed suicide.

His suicide note partially read "I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain ... of starving or wounded children"

I've seen that photo several times and I agree with you wholeheartedly... but, it stirred something inside of you, right? Made you emotional? All of you are now emotional about it,right? The picture was a snapshot of a piece of history that could only be captured right then and there by that journalist so that the rest of the world might grasp the horrors going on and try to help, or at least force you to know about it. The almost forgotten history caught was gruesome and infinitely horrible beyond most of our comprehension, but the photo served it's purpose for why it was taken. The photojournalist didn't go to the Sudan to go skiing or sunbathing for sh--s and giggles, he went there to bring a piece of that other world home to people like y'all who would be appalled. What is necessarily wrong with that? You are now out of your box, and that is what the point was.

If he didn't scoop the child up immediately after this picture, that would be horribly wrong. Did he take pics of the vulture tearing the baby apart? Probably not. If he did, I haven't seen those. Maybe they're on one of the 'Faces of Death' series, which I've never seen. I doubt it. If y'all wanna get angry about photojournalists capturing death, get mad about THAT series of movies and the fact you can rent them almost anywhere for your household viewing enjoyment.