A text nominee photographer claims actually took a picture of ‘Napalm Girl’

Black and white pictures show a group of people out. Two focus people look at the camera, while the other person walks back. The event seems clear, with a bad environment behind them.
Still from ‘Stringer.’ | VII Foundation

A document that claims nick ut did not take Fear of warknown as Napalm girlIt was broadcast last night by the name of Vietnamese Stringer, Thanh Nghe, as a photographer instead.

Fear of war It was taken at Trang Bang, South Vietnam, on June 8, 1972, and shows Phan Thi Kim Phuc heading to the camera away from the Napalm strike. It is a popular photo from the Vietnam War and one of the most popular photos of all time.

Executive producer of Stringer Gary Knight – veteran photographer himself – says La Times That the story “gives my profession and introduces facts into my profession.”

The claim in the film comes from the past The media included Photo editor Carl Robinson who was working in the Saigon office that day was taken.

Fear of war napalm girl nick ut
Fear of war. | The media included

The established story of Fear of war It goes that when he saw the picture, Robinson believed the front naked in the picture made it impossible. But he was overwhelmed by the chief photography in Saigon, Horst Faas.

“This story does not depend on Carl,” Knight He tells the Times. “We interviewed 55, 45 people on the camera, and we conducted a survey, which has been tested. So we do not rely on Carl’s story. That was just the beginning of the journey. And if the AP chooses to talk about Carl as a shy worker or not, it doesn’t make him Bad witnesses every second.

The film mentions Thanh Nghe, an A driver of an NBC News Crew, as a real photographer. Director Bao Nguyen says that NGHE did not come forward because he is an immigrant who has not been able to tell his story.

“The life that many refugees and migrants have stopped when they come to a good and foreign place, there is this expectation that they have one organization to tell their stories and tell their stories, but they are not the same,” Nguyen tells La Times. “This film is in many ways to think of the concept that,” okay, if NGHE had this fact for a long time, why didn’t he say anything? ‘

“But can you imagine coming to new cultures, a new place, just trying to take care of your family and go to a system he doesn’t understand and that he believes he is not for? The written films are responsible for trying to recognize all these presentations and systems that have been there.”

The refusal of the media

The AP says that for the last six months, it has done its “painful research” in its response to the coming document.

Inside the 23 -page report, the American news agency says it has spoken to seven witnesses who were present either in the photo area or in the Saigon office, and none of them questioning Napalm Girl’s UT writing.

The agency adds that it has collected all the evidence of photography and film to create a visual schedule for the day but acknowledges that the image is incomplete because of the analog era in which the event took place.

Nick ut. | Photo by Michael Zhang to Petapixel

In his confidence of Stringer, screen every day It shows that an index investigation from Paris also “reunits bitterly what was going on that day”. The testimony has been reported to keep away from the image area. Petapixel It is still seeing a movie.

“I stand for research and observations,” Knight tells La Times. “I think NGHE was the only person who was in the right position to take the picture.”

UT Lawyer James Hornstein says La Times That the allegations upset the photographer “personal and emotional.” Hornstein adds is “bad” that the production company, the VII Foundation, provided a platform for Robinson who “clearly has a vendetta that has been exceeding for over 50 years.”

The girl in the picture Kim Phuc calls her the document “a bad and false attack on Nick Ut” and adds “He won’t be involved in the Gary Knight film because I know it’s false.”

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