War photographer in town
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Hürriyet Daily News
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Mayıs 21, 2009 00:00
ISTANBUL - Legendary Vietnam War photographer Nick Ut arrived in Turkey on Tuesday for a television appearance to discuss his award-winning images.
Ut is best known for his iconic 1972 photo of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, a naked 9-year-old girl running toward the camera as she flees a South Vietnamese napalm attack on the Trang Bang village during the Vietnam War.
Contact maintained
Speaking to press members at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport, Ut said Kim Phuc now lives in Canada. The photographer and his most famous subject have maintained contact and met a week ago in Rome.
The Associated Press news photographer will be the guest of a TRT Türk television program called "Ve Zaman Durdu" (And Time Stopped). The program will feature world-renowned war photographers talking about the "moment" captured in their award-winning images. Ut began to take photographs for the Associated Press when he was just 16, after his older brother Huynh Thanh My, also anÊAP photographer, was killed in Vietnam. Ut himself was wounded three times during the war. After taking Kim Phuc’s picture, Ut brought her to the hospital before he developed the film for the Pulitzer Prize-winning image. The initial publication of the photo was delayed due to the AP bureau’s debate about transmitting a photograph of a naked girl. On May 6, the Society of Professional Journalists honored Ut with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Contact maintained
Speaking to press members at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport, Ut said Kim Phuc now lives in Canada. The photographer and his most famous subject have maintained contact and met a week ago in Rome.
The Associated Press news photographer will be the guest of a TRT Türk television program called "Ve Zaman Durdu" (And Time Stopped). The program will feature world-renowned war photographers talking about the "moment" captured in their award-winning images. Ut began to take photographs for the Associated Press when he was just 16, after his older brother Huynh Thanh My, also anÊAP photographer, was killed in Vietnam. Ut himself was wounded three times during the war. After taking Kim Phuc’s picture, Ut brought her to the hospital before he developed the film for the Pulitzer Prize-winning image. The initial publication of the photo was delayed due to the AP bureau’s debate about transmitting a photograph of a naked girl. On May 6, the Society of Professional Journalists honored Ut with a Lifetime Achievement Award.