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Nick Ut

1951 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nick Ut is the 59th most popular photographer (up from 89th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Vietnam (up from 85th in 2019) and the most popular Vietnamese Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Nick Ut ranks 59 out of 148Before him are Josef Sudek, Gustav Klutsis, Cecil Beaton, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Sean Flynn, and Wilson Bentley. After him are Hiroshi Sugimoto, Grete Stern, Hippolyte Bayard, Patrick Demarchelier, Lothar Wolleh, and Herb Ritts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Nick Ut ranks 197Before him are Dave Benton, Arkady Rotenberg, Ivars Godmanis, Stephen Bishop, Bob Iger, and Massimo Ranieri. After him are Marc Surer, Alec John Such, Charly García, Hans-Joachim Stuck, Iván Fischer, and Izhar Cohen.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Nick Ut ranks 59 out of 136Before him are Đỗ Mười (1917), Andrew Dũng-Lạc (1795), Son Ngoc Thanh (1908), Nguyễn Văn Thuận (1928), Nguyễn Du (1765), and Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (1949). After him are Thiệu Trị (1807), Võ Chí Công (1912), Lê Đức Anh (1920), Hàm Nghi (1872), Phạm Tuân (1947), and Nguyễn Văn Linh (1915).

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Vietnam

Among photographers born in Vietnam, Nick Ut ranks 1