-Spencer Tunick is an American artist. He is best known for his installations that feature large numbers of nude people posed in artistic formations.
-Nick Ut's 1972 shot of 9-year-old Kim Phuc, running naked down a highway after her village was bombarded with napalm, became one of the most famous photos of the Vietnam War.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc was crying because napalm - black, oily blazing jellied gasoline - was burning the skin off her back.
Paris Hilton was crying because she had just been told she had to serve her 23-day jail sentence in jail.Funny things, tears. They can be triggered by the happiest moments or the saddest.They can be set off by brutal pain and sheer terror, as they were for Kim Phuc.Or they can simply mean you're feeling sorry for yourself. Like Paris.But these tears, it turns out, had something in common: Exactly thirty-five years apart, they both ended up in the lens of Nick Ut's camera.
Source : http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/06/12/2007-06-12_a_far_cry_from_vietnam.html
-Kevin Carter born in Johannesburg, Carter was an award-winning South African photojournalist.
Starving Child 
Famine in Sudan 
In March 1993 Carter made a trip to southern Sudan. The sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering near the village of Ayod attracted Carter to an emaciated Sudanese toddler. The girl had stopped to rest while struggling to the food camp, whereupon a vulture had landed nearby.
Kevin Carter later described the incident... he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn't. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away. However, Carter came under heavy criticism for just photographing and not helping the little girl
"The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene."
The photograph was sold to The New York Times where it appeared for the first time on March 26, 1993. Practically overnight hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper to run a special editor's note saying the girl had enough strength to walk away from the vulture, but that her ultimate fate was unknown.
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