This photograph by Kevin Carter won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1993.  The photograph is artfully executed and unbelievably horrifying.  There is a vertical line created by the near-by horizon, which is blurred by the photographer who used a wider aperture to focus solely on the photo's two figures.  The ground itself is pale, relatively unobtrusive, so as to further draw the eye towards the starving child and the vulture.  The child himself (or herself - they are starving to the point where we cannot tell) is in a position of complete vulnerability.  His bent-over position makes him parallel to the ground and accentuates the fact that he is no longer a fully capable human; he has become prey.  The vulture lurks in the background, shoulders raised and head attentive, waiting to for the right moment to attack.  He is also slightly out of focus so as to create a visual line between the vulture and the child.  The distance between them makes it all the more horrifying as the viewer realizes what is about to happen.  This change in roles - with the human as the victim and the vulture as the stalker - is what makes this photograph so striking.

George Cardon