Nick Ut

Photographer
Associated Press
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Nick Ut

Nick Ut

AP photographer Nick Ut is perhaps best known for his 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning image of 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc as she ran naked and screaming toward the camera, her skin badly burned from a napalm attack on her village during the Vietnam War. Nick rushed the girl to the hospital, saving her life. The two are close friends to this day.

Nick’s powerful image made photographic history and remains, 38 years later, one of the most iconic images of the Vietnam War. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Nick received every major photographic award for this singular image, including the World Press Photo, Sigma Delta Chi, Overseas Press Club, National Press Club, and the George Polk Memorial Award.

Nick joined the Associated Press in 1966, when he was 16, following the death of his older brother, Huynh Thanh My, an AP photographer who was killed in combat the year before. Nick himself was wounded three times during his coverage of the war. Since the war ended in 1975, Nick has worked for the Associated Press in Tokyo, South Korea, Hanoi, where he opened the bureau in 1993, and Los Angeles, where he currently resides with his family.