Source : NEW INDIAN EXPRESS NEWS
“World Press Photo has suspended the attribution of ‘The Terror of War’ to Nick Ut, from today,” it said in a statement.
The organisation named the two other photographers as Nguyen Thanh Nghe and Huynh Cong Phuc, both present for the infamous scene in the southern village of Trang Bang on June 8, 1972.
In “The Stringer”, which premiered at the Sundance film festival in January, Nguyen told the documentary’s makers he was certain the photo was his.
AP, which said earlier this month it would continue crediting the photo to Ut, said in a statement it stood by that decision.
But it acknowledged its own investigation had raised “real questions that we may never be able to answer” about the picture’s authorship.
“We have found that it is impossible to prove exactly what happened that day on the road or in the bureau over 50 years ago,” it said.
Ut insisted the image was his in a February Facebook post, calling claims to the contrary “a slap in the face”.
The girl in the picture, Kim Phuc, survived her injuries, and is today a Canadian citizen and outspoken advocate for child war victims.
World Press Photo emphasised that the authenticity of the image itself was not in question.
“It is without question that this photograph represents a real moment in history that continues to reverberate in Vietnam, the United States, and globally,” said executive director Joumana El Zein Khoury.
SOURCE :- NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
