Nick Ut, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Nick Ut

Vietnamese photographer

Date of Birth: 29-Mar-1951

Place of Birth: Long An, Vietnam

Profession: photographer, photojournalist, journalist, war photographer

Nationality: United States, Vietnam

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Nick Ut

  • Hu?nh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut (born March 29, 1951) is a Vietnamese American photographer for the Associated Press (AP) who works out of Los Angeles.
  • 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", depicting children in flight from a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War.
  • His best-known photo, it features a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Th? Kim Phúc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm strike that mistakenly hit Tr?ng Bàng village instead of nearby North Vietnamese troops.
  • On the 40th anniversary of that Pulitzer Prize-winning photo in September 2012, Ut became the third person inducted by the Leica Hall of Fame for his contributions to photojournalism.
  • On March 29, 2017, he retired from AP.

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