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World Press Photo suspends credit for historic 'Napalm Girl' photo

World Press Photo suspended the attribution of the iconic 1973 Vietnam War photo 'Napalm Girl,' originally credited to Nick Ut, citing doubts about its authorship.
This decision followed a documentary called 'The Stringer' that questioned Ut's authorship and prompted further investigation and debate within the photographic community.
World Press Photo's investigation indicated that two other photographers, Nguyen Thanh Nghe and Huynh Cong Phuc, were potentially in a more favorable position to capture the image taken during the napalm attack on June 8, 1972, in South Vietnam.
Although Associated Press investigations found no conclusive proof to remove Ut’s credit and acknowledged that the passage of over 50 years makes definitive verification impossible, World Press Photo concluded that the uncertainties surrounding the photo’s authorship are too substantial to uphold the current attribution.
The suspension implies ongoing uncertainty about the photo's authorship but does not affect AP's ownership or Ut's Pulitzer Prize, and no reassignment of credit is planned at present.

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