{"id":15002,"date":"2013-04-17T06:52:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T06:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=15002"},"modified":"2013-04-19T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T12:20:30","slug":"vietnam-photo-tour-guests-meet-pulitzer-winning-photographer-nick-ut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/vietnam-photo-tour-guests-meet-pulitzer-winning-photographer-nick-ut\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Photo Tour Guests Meet Pulitzer Winning Photographer, Nick Ut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call it luck or call it serendipity, but what an absolutely amazing opportunity we had this year; to meet a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist, right here in the same country where over 40 years ago, he snapped what has become the most iconic image of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hu\u1ef3nh C\u00f4ng \u00dat, known professionally as Nick Ut\u00a0 was born March 29, 1951. Nick is a photographer for the Associated Press working out of Los Angeles. His best known photo is the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of Phan Th\u1ecb Kim Ph\u00fac, who was photographed as a naked 9-year-old girl running toward the camera to flee a South Vietnamese napalm attack on invading North Vietnamese at the Tr\u1ea3ng B\u00e0ng village during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

Several years ago, I ran into Nick at Hoan Kim Lake in Hanoi. I was leading the annual Vietnam Explorer Photo Tour<\/a> and Nick was on vacation in Vietnam. Here’s a link to my blog post from our first meeting<\/a>\u00a0 and a photo from our 2010 meeting below.<\/p>\n

Nick is an easily recognizable guy, so when I saw a photographer with white hair, bushy eyebrows and several cameras hanging around his neck I knew it was him.<\/p>\n

Since I had been following Nick\u2019s work for many years and was familiar with his famous \u201cnapalm girl\u201d photo, I approached him saying \u201cHi Nick, what are you doing here in Hanoi, aren’t you supposed to be shooting in LA?\u201d…\u00a0 Being the super nice guy that he is, Nick responded with a smile, saying he was on vacation visiting friends in Hanoi. Since that meeting back in 2010, Nick and I have kept in touch by email and Facebook.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo by John Birgiolas, 2010<\/p>\n

Nick keeps his Facebook page up to date almost daily, so, this year, while leading the tour, I noticed that he was in Vietnam again. I called Nick and invited him to come to the Hanoi Press Club for our farewell dinner that evening. Nick said that he couldn’t make the dinner but agreed to come meet the photo tour group at our hotel, which was coincidentally, just down the street from a wedding that he was attending in Hanoi\u2019s Old Quarter.<\/p>\n

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What a pleasure it was for the group to meet \u201cthe man behind the famous photograph\u201d. From everyone on the tour, we want to say …Thanks Nick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Call it luck or call it serendipity, but what an absolutely amazing opportunity we had this year; to meet a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist, right here in the same country where over 40 years ago, he snapped what has become the most iconic image of the Vietnam War. Hu\u1ef3nh C\u00f4ng \u00dat, known professionally as Nick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[192,191,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15002"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15078,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions\/15078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}