I remember a photographer in either Somalia or the Sudan who saw a starving woman and baby, with some vultures perched overhead. He waited and waited for one of the vultures to spread it’s wings so he could get a great shot, but it never did.
The woman eventually got up and staggered in the direction of a feeding station.
The public was horrified when he told the story, he was criticized for not helping the woman.
But then, he was a photographer, not a medical aid person.
IIRC the German(?) photographer later suicided.
Kevin Carter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_vulture_and_the_little_girl
March 1993.
It is a photograph of a frail famine-stricken boy, initially believed to be a girl, who had collapsed in the foreground with a vulture eyeing him from nearby. The child was reported to be attempting to reach a United Nations feeding center about a half mile away in Ayod, Sudan,(now South Sudan), in March 1993. The picture won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography award in 1994. Carter died by suicide four months after winning the prize.
Long ago in a mostly forgotten class, the subject of some primitive tribe that believed having a photo taken would steal part of your soul.
At the time it was considered so hilarious, the topic persisted the entire semester and beyond.
Years later I changed my thoughts on the subject.
The work of this photographer is a good example.
Clearly, he is often taking something from his subjects, what I do not know?
Dignity?
Not so much the captured photons, many photos of starving people are less bothersome and he won a Pulitzer Prize for it, what did the child receive?
Something in the underlying form about a healthy person making money from starving child?