The Most Famous
PHOTOGRAPHERS from Vietnam
This page contains a list of the greatest Vietnamese Photographers. The pantheon dataset contains 148 Photographers, 1 of which were born in Vietnam. This makes Vietnam the birth place of the 23rd most number of Photographers behind Canada, and Iran.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Vietnamese Photographers of all time. This list of famous Vietnamese Photographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Nick Ut (b. 1951)
With an HPI of 60.37, Nick Ut is the most famous Vietnamese Photographer. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut (born March 29, 1951), is a Vietnamese-American photographer who worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles. He won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year for the 1972 photograph The Terror of War, depicting children running away from a napalm bombing attack during the Vietnam War. Since the release of the documentary The Stringer in 2025, the authorship of the photograph has been disputed; the documentary identified Nguyễn Thành Nghệ as the author, AP stood with the attribution to Ut, and World Press Photo suspended the authorship attribution until more evidence is available. In 2017, he retired. Examples of his work may be found in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Vietnamese photographers born between 1951 and 1951. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Vietnamese photographers include Nick Ut. As of April 2024, 1 new Vietnamese photographers have been added to Pantheon including Nick Ut.
