Nick Ut
Vietnamese photographer (born 1951) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut (born March 29, 1951) is a Vietnamese-American photographer. He worked for the Associated Press.[1] He won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year for "The Terror of War". The picture showed children running away from a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War.[2]
His best-known photo, it features a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm strike that mistakenly hit Trảng Bàng village instead of nearby North Vietnamese troops.[3]
On March 29, 2017, he retired from the Associated Press.[4]
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