Nick Ut: a career in photography – in pictures

Associated Press photographer Nick Ut took one of the most famous photographs of all time – of a young girl running along a road in Vietnam after a napalm raid. But during his 51 years as a press photographer, Ut worked as a staff photographer, covering many and varied assignments

Nick Ut

Main image: Nine-year-old Kim Phuc running from the scene of a napalm attack on her village – Ut’s most famous shot

  • 22 March 1975

    A refugee clutching a baby is carried by a government helicopter gunship from Tuy Hòa, north-east of Saigon. Vietnam. They were among thousands fleeing from communist advances
    Refugee clutching baby in helicopter gunship

  • 23 June 1976

    Muhammad Ali throws a punch at a sandbag during a workout at a gym in Tokyo
    Muhammad Ali

  • 24 October 1976

    Austrian Formula One driver Niki Lauda, then the defending champion, and James Hunt of Britain pictured before the start of the Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji International Speedway, Gotemba, Japan
    Niki Lauda and James Hunt

  • 25 October 1977

    Film director Roman Polanski leaves court in Santa Monica, California, after a hearing relating to charges that he had sex with an underage girl
    Roman Polanski

  • 20 September 1980

    Mexican boxer Lupe Pintor becomes the WBC bantamweight champion by knocking out Briton Johnny Owen in Los Angeles
    WBC bantamweight champion Mexican Lupe Pintor knocks out British boxer Johnny Owen

  • 13 January 1997

    OJ Simpson arrives at Los Angeles County superior court in Santa Monica for the civil suit over his wife’s death
    OJ Simpson climbs out of car

  • 14 August 1997

    Kelly Fisher, the former fiancee of Dodi Fayed, wipes her eye after announcing a lawsuit against him in Los Angeles
    Kelly Fisher

  • 8 December 1997

    Actor Robert Downey Jr listens to municipal Judge Lawrence Mira in a Malibu, California, courtroom before being sentenced to six months in jail for violating his parole after a drug conviction
    Robert Downey Jr in court

  • 16 January 1999

    Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson covers his face during a news conference announcing his return to boxing at the Hollywood athletic club in Los Angeles
    Mike Tyson

  • 28 March 2005

    Michael Jackson adjusts his hair as he enters the Santa Barbara County courthouse with his bodyguard as testimony continues in his trial for child molestation
    Michael Jackson

  • 10 February 2012

    A Japanese snow monkey relaxes in a hot spring in the Jigokudani valley in northern Nagano prefecture in Japan
    Japanese snow monkey in a hot spring

  • 24 September 2013

    A DC-10 tanker drops fire retardant to battle a wildfire in the San Gabriel mountains in Azusa, California
    A DC10 airplane tanker dumps fire retardant

  • 8 April 2016

    President Barack Obama and his daughter Malia walk from Marine One to Air Force One at Los Angeles international airport
    Barack Obama and daughter Malia

  • 29 March 2012

    Nick Ut visits Kim Phuc’s house, near where he took his Pulitzer prize-winning photograph of her as a terrified nine-year-old in Trảng Bàng, Vietnam
    Nick Ut
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