Ep 11: A Camera, A Child, and A Vulture - Larissa MacFarquhar

Dilemma Podcast

English - November 22, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 153 MB - ★★★★★ - 66 ratings
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In the depths of a brutal famine in Sudan in 1993, Kevin Carter took a photo of a starving child and a perched vulture which appeared on the front page of newspapers all over the world. Readers bombarded the editors with the question "What happened to the child?"

Co-Hosts Jay Shapiro and Coleman Hughes discuss this difficult ethical case with Larissa MacFarquar, best selling author of Strangers Drowning