Nick Ut

Quick Facts

Full Name	Nick Ut
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Mar 29, 1951(1951-03-29)
Age	73
Birthplace	Long An
Country	Vietnam
Horoscope	Pisces

Nick Ut Biography

Nick Ut is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on March 29, 1951 in Long An, Vietnam. Huynh Cong Ut is a Vietnamese American photographer working out of Los Angeles for the Associated Press (AP). He was born March 29, 1951. He was awarded the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography as well as the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year for his photo “The Terror of War” which depicts children fleeing from napalm bombing during the Vietnam War. It is his most well-known photo. It shows Phan Thi Kim Phuc (a 9-year-old girl) running towards the camera after a South Vietnamese napalm attack that mistookly hit Trang Bang instead of the nearby North Vietnamese troops. Ut was inducted into the Leica Hall of Fame on the 40th anniversary of his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, September 2012. He retired from AP on March 29, 2017.

After censorship on a photograph posted on the newspaper’s Facebook Page, a Norway newspaper published an Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg in September 2016. Half of the ministers from Norway’s government shared the famous Nick Ut picture on their Facebook pages. Erna Solberg, prime minister of the Conservative Party (Hoyre), was one of them. Facebook deleted several of the posts, including that of the Prime Minister. However, the photo was allowed to be uploaded later.

Ut is a citizen of the United States and is married to Ut. He has two children. He is a AP photographer and lives in Los Angeles. His photographs of Paris Hilton, a weeping Paris, in the back seat a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s cruiser on June 8, 2007, were published around the world. However, Ut was also photographing Hilton with Karl Larsen. Two photos emerged. The more well-known Hilton photo was Ut’s, despite it being Larsen’s.

Nick Ut Net Worth

Nick Ut is one of the richest Photographer from Vietnam. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nick Ut 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Although it is one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, President Nixon doubted once the authenticity of my photograph after he first saw it in the papers on June 12, 1972. … For me and many others, the picture was more authentic than I could have imagined. The photo was just as real as the Vietnam war. It was not necessary to fix the horror of Vietnam war that I had witnessed. The photo of the terrified little girl who was beaten to death is still a vivid testimony to its authenticity. Kim Phuc will never forget that moment from thirty years ago. It changed our lives.

… An editor at the Associated Press rejected Kim Phuc’s photo of her running down the road in no clothing, as it displayed frontal nudity. Photographs of nudes of any age or sexe, especially those with frontal views, were forbidden by the Associated Press in 1972… Horst argued via telex that an exception should be made with the New York head office, but with the condition that only a close-up of Kim Phuc would be sent. Hal Buell, New York’s photo editor, agreed that the photograph’s news value outweighed any concerns about nudity.

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Facts & Trivia

Nick Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Vietnam. Nick Ut celebrates birthday on March 29 of every year.

Why is Nick Ut famous?

Photojournalist Nick Ut was only 21 when he received the Pulitzer Prize and a World Press Photo Award for his 1972 photograph, “The Terror of War” (contains sensitive material). More commonly known as “Napalm Girl,” his iconic Vietnam War photograph appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world.

What happened to Nick Ut?

Ut, who worked for The AP until he retired from the outlet in 2017 , has won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. He’s the first journalist to receive the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given by the federal government.

Where is Nick Ut from?

Long An, Vietnam

How did Nick Ut become a photographer?

Born in Long An, Vietnam (then part of the French Indochina), Ut began to take photographs for the Associated Press when he was 16 , just after his older brother Huynh Thanh My, another AP photographer, was killed in Vietnam.

Who dropped the napalm bomb in Vietnam?

Phan Thị Kim Phúc OOnt
June 8, 1972: Kim Phúc, center left, running down a road naked near Trảng Bàng after a South Vietnam Air Force napalm attack (Nick Ut / The Associated Press)
Born| Phan Thị Kim Phúc April 6, 1963 Trảng Bàng, South Vietnam
Nationality| Canadian
Other names| Kim Phúc