Nick Ut

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Huỳnh, but is often simplified to Huynh in English-language text. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Ut (Út).

Nick Ut
Ut in 2016
Born
Huynh Cong Ut

(1951-03-29) March 29, 1951 (age 73)
Bình Quới, Châu Thành, Long An, French Indochina, French Union[1]
CitizenshipAmerican
OccupationPhotojournalism
Notable credit(s)Pulitzer Prize
World Press Photo
National Medal of Arts

Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut (born March 29, 1951),[2] is a Vietnamese-American photographer who worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles.[3] He won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year for his 1972 photograph The Terror of War, depicting children running away from a napalm bombing attack during the Vietnam War.[4] In 2017, he retired.[5] Examples of his work may be found in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.[6]

  1. ^ Kỳ Quan (June 4, 2018). "Cùng Nick Út về thăm nơi chôn nhau cắt rốn". Báo Lao Động (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on March 19, 2024. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
    Hoàng Phương (April 2, 2012). "Nick Út thăm lại quê xưa". Thanh Niên (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on March 19, 2024. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
  2. ^ "Nick Ut "From Hell to Hollywood"". Leica Gallery Los Angeles. Archived from the original on March 19, 2024. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
  3. ^ Hudson, Berkley (2009). Sterling, Christopher H. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Journalism. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE. pp. 1060–67. ISBN 978-0-7619-2957-4.
  4. ^ "Spot News Photography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
  5. ^ "Associated Press photographer Nick Ut to retire". The Detroit News. March 13, 2017. Archived from the original on March 19, 2024. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
  6. ^ "Nick Ut". National Gallery of Art. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024. Retrieved May 13, 2024.