Former Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, who took the famous ‘napalm girl’ photo, received the National Medal of Arts at the White House on January 13 for his decades of contributions to wartime photojournalism.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc, known as the “napalm girl” in an iconic photo taken during wartime in Vietnam in 1972, on February 11 received Germany’s Dresden Peace Prize for her work for peace.
Former Associated Press war photographer Huynh Cong Ut (Nick Ut) donated a set of five historic photos of the American war in Vietnam and a camera he used during the war to the Vietnamese Women’s Museum in Hanoi on May 6.