{"id":116010,"date":"2025-05-20T03:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116010\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T03:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:20:09","slug":"world-press-photo-foundation-suspends-attribution-of-vietnam-war-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116010\/","title":{"rendered":"World Press Photo Foundation Suspends Attribution of Vietnam War Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn Friday, World Press Photo Foundation<\/a> suspended authorship attribution<\/a> to the Associated Press<\/a> (AP) photographer Nick \u00dat<\/a> for the iconic 1972 photograph The Terror of War or Napalm Girl, which became a symbol of opposition during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe attribution is under question after new research by the VII Foundation was released as part of The Stringer documentary<\/a> in January 2025. Following an independent investigation by forensic analysts and media experts, the documentary asserts that is more likely that the stringer\u00a0Nguy\u1ec5n Th\u00e0nh Ngh\u1ec7 or Hu\u1ef3nh C\u00f4ng Ph\u00fac captured the fraught scene.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSeparate\u00a0follow-up investigations by AP<\/a>\u00a0and World Press Photo indicate uncertain authorship. As a result, World Press Photo suspended its attribution to \u00dat.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs our report explains in great detail, there\u2019s simply not enough hard evidence or fact to remove the credit from Nick Ut, and it\u2019s impossible for anyone to know with certainty how exactly things played out on the road in the space of a few minutes over half a century ago,\u201d Derl McCrudden, AP\u2019s vice president and head of global news production, told the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPeople need to have an open mind, need to see the film and all of the forensic reports and judge for themselves where the truth lies in this story,\u201d Nguy\u1ec5n Th\u00e0nh Ngh\u1ec7 added.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe suspension of authorship is expected to last until it can be undoubtedly confirmed\u2014if ever.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe photo, however, is still undisputed and its award for \u201cPhoto of the Year\u201d in 1973 remains.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe work shows five young children and four armed soldiers running from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War. The children appear to be running in terror, with 9-year-old Kim Phuc in particular naked and distressed. Taken on June 8, 1972, the image had an immediate and lasting global impact. (For her part, Phuc survived her injuries; she is a Canadian citizen and advocate for young victims of war.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, World Press Photo Foundation suspended authorship attribution to the Associated Press (AP) photographer Nick \u00dat for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,19430,4022,77,52182,16,15,52183],"class_list":{"0":"post-116010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-nick-u00dat","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-world-press-photo-foundation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}