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Who was the real photographer behind the image that defined the Vietnam war?

A recent documentary claimed that a local freelancer, not photographer Nick Ut, took the famous shot of a naked Vietnamese girl. Ut—and his legal team—say different

Simon Bainbridge
7 March 2025
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Kim Phuc at the exhibition From Hell to Hollywood in Milan, 2022. Phuc, the girl in the original photograph, refused to participate in The Stringer documentary

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