World Press Photo Suspends Nick Ut's Credit on 'Napalm Girl'

The World press photo has decided to suspend the attribution of the shot to photographer Nick Út, after a documentary in recent months had raised its first doubts. The shot won the prestigious WPP prize and the Pulitzer in 1973

More than fifty years after its release, the photograph of the little Vietnamese woman burned in napalm may not have been taken by her alleged author, Nick Ut, says the World Press association.

The World Press Photo contest announced on Friday that it no longer considered American-Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut as the author of "La petite fille au napalm", one of the most emblematic clichés in history, after the broadcast of a documentary that sowed doubt.

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Following the film, which questioned the authorship of the iconic Vietnam War photograph of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack, the World Press Photo organization also conducted an investigation and, based on its findings, revoked the authorship of the photograph.

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