Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Vietnamese-American Nick Ut wins Lifetime Award

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/en/arts-entertainment/10939/vietnamese-american-nick-ut-wins-lifetime-award.html

VietNamNet Bridge – Besides the Pulitzer and other awards over the years, Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, a Vietnamese American, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Journalist Association (AAJA), the Vietnam Reporting Project said.

In 1972, Ut won the Pulitzer Prize for his image of 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc as she ran naked and screaming toward his camera, her skin badly burned from a napalm attack on her village during the Vietnam War.

After taking a photo of the girl, Nick rushed the girl to the hospital, saving her life.




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