©Nick Ut – Japanese snow monkeys at Nagano park Japan,
Nick Ut
Snow Monkey
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Paper
20”x 24”
$2,000
©Per Bernal
Nick Ut is a Vietnamese-American photographer who worked for the Associated Press (AP) in Los Angeles.[2] He won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year for “The Terror of War”, depicting children running away from a napalm bombing attack during the Vietnam War.[3]
His best-known photo features a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm strike that mistakenly hit Trảng Bàng village instead of nearby North Vietnamese troops.[4]
On the 40th anniversary of that Pulitzer Prize-winning photo in September 2012, Ut became only the third person inducted into the Leica Hall of Fame for his contributions to photojournalism.[5] On March 29, 2017, he retired from AP.[6]
On January 13, 2021, Ut became the first journalist to receive the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States federal government.