I think you mean, "earned Kevin the _Pulitzer_ Prize." He won the Pulitzer in the "Features" category.

The book _Capture the Moment_, ed. by C. Rubin and E. Newton, originally published in 2000, details each of the Pulitzer Prizes awarded up to its publication.

Kevin Carter's photograph, entitled "Waiting Game for Sudanese Child," was taken at a feeding station at Ayod, Sudan. The book tells us: "Carter takes his photographs, then chases the bird away. Afterward, he sits under a tree and cries. Journalists in the Sudan had been told not to touch famine victims because of the risk of transmitting disease. This is no comfort to Carter, who tells a friend, 'I'm really, really sorry I didn't pick the child up.'"

The photograph was taken March 23, 1993. Kevin Carter was found dead at the age of 33 from an apparent suicide on July 26, 1994.