The photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc running from her burning village won Nick Ut a Pulitzer prize, but some contend a local freelancer was robbed of his credit
The image of a young Vietnamese girl, fleeing burnt and naked from an incendiary attack on her village outside Saigon on June 8, 1972, has become one of the defining photographs of the horrors of war.
Now, more than half a century later, the “napalm girl” photograph is the focus of a bitter dispute among some of the biggest personalities and institutions in photojournalism.
On one side are the many friends and supporters of Nick Ut, the Vietnamese-American photographer credited with taking the unforgettable image for the US news agency the Associated Press (AP).
