Huynh Cong Ut
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Huynh Cong Ut, also known as Nick Ut (born March 29, 1951) is a photographer for the Associated Press (AP) who works out of Los Angeles. Perhaps his best known photo is the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of Kim Phuc Phan Thi, who was photographed as a naked girl (9-year old) running toward the camera to flee a napalm attack near Trang Bang during the Vietnam War.
Born in Long An, Vietnam, 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.
Before delivering his film with the Kim Phuc photo, he took her to the hospital. Horst Faas ordered the photo transmitted despite the AP bureau's debate about transmitting a naked girl's photo over the wire.
Wounded three times in Vietnam, Ut has since worked for the Associated Press in Tokyo, South Korea, and Hanoi and still maintains contact with Kim Phuc, who now resides in Canada.
He still works for the AP, but now at their Los Angeles bureau. He is a United States citizen, and is married with two children.