She screamed: “ Nong qua! Nong qua!” Too hot. He put his equipment down and poured water over her. Using his first name, as is often customary in Vietnam, he said: “Nick see her skin coming off and stopped. What happened to her?” Ut thought amid the click of his Leica camera. As he crouched behind his camera, a grandmother cradled a dead baby. Ut didn’t think there were any civilians left when he saw villagers running in front of a fireball, including a group of children. The day he took the fateful picture unfolded in a barrage of heavy fighting and bombing in Trang Bang. Ut began his career as a photographer - with help from his late brother’s wife - in the darkroom. They thought the war had already taken one son away - they didn’t want to risk another son,” recalled Peter Arnett, the famed journalist and former correspondent who won a Pulitzer for international reporting in Vietnam. “The bosses didn’t know what to make of him. After his funeral, Ut showed up at the AP’s Saigon bureau, trying to get a job.
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An actor, Ut’s sibling had left the movie business to become a war photographer for the AP, until he was hit by a Viet Cong bullet. How do you wrap up a career like that?”īorn Huynh Cong Ut in Long An, in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam, Ut was 15 when his brother, Huynh Thanh My, was killed in 1965. “Some chefs come home and don’t want to cook. His son, Michael Huynh, 36, the oldest of Ut’s two children, said he’s not so sure his father will follow through. On Jexactly 35 years after his famous 1972 photo of the burning, crying 9-year-old girl on that dirt road in his homeland - Ut snapped infamous photos of socialite Paris Hilton grimacing and sobbing in the back of a car, after finding out she would be sent back to jail to serve 23 days for a probation violation. kind of gathering between Mayor Eric Garcetti, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and rappers Snoop Dogg and The Game. Last month, the 66-year-old documented the scene at an only-in-L.A.
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Over his career for the Associated Press, Ut has been embraced by Marlon Brando at the murder trial of the actor’s son and captured scenes in countless courtrooms, including those involving “Night Stalker” serial killer Richard Ramirez, Michael Jackson, the Menendez brothers and O.J. He knows its streets so well he never uses a GPS or maps.
for more of his life than in his native Vietnam. He raised his camera and snapped the photo that changed his life.Īlmost a half century later, Ut is driving east of Los Angeles International Airport, past the Forum in Inglewood where he once photographed Lakers games during the “Showtime” era. Nick Ut stood on a road in a village just outside of Saigon when he spotted the girl - naked, scorched by napalm and screaming as she ran.