Serious doubts from the World Press Photo about the paternity of the photo “The Napalm Girl”

In doubt caused by a documentary, the World Press Photo Foundation said today that it is suspending the recognition of the famous photograph “The Napalm Girl”, which was hitherto attributed to an Associated Press photographer (AP). The black and white photo of the Little Vietnameza with severe burns on her body, running naked on a road after a Napalm bomb bombing in Trang Bang, in the southern part of the country in 1972, had helped to convert to the world, and the perception of the world until then. AP -American photographer Hiunh Kong Ut, better known as Nick Ut, had received a Pulitzer Prize and World Press Photo Award for this iconic photo. “The Napalm Girl”, Kim Fuk Van (Kim Phuc Phan Thi), who acquired the Canadian nationality, continued to give her testimony as an adult. But in January, a documentary that […]
Source: News Beast

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