David Burnett is an American magazine photojournalist based in Washington, D.C. His work from the 1979 Iranian revolution was published extensively in Time.
Burnett won the 1980 World Press Photo award with a photo of a Cambodian woman holding her child in her arms waiting for food to be distributed at a refugee camp (1980)
Burnett at the book signing for "Soul Rebel".
Phan Thi Kim Phuc
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Phan Thị Kim Phúc, referred to informally as the girl in the picture and the napalm girl, is a South Vietnamese-born Canadian woman best known as the child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize–winning photo
David Burnett (photojournalist)
…present at Trảng Bàng in Tây Ninh Province when Nick Ut of the Associated Press captured his famous image of the nine-year-old Vietnamese girl Phan Thị Kim Phúc and some other children fleeing a napalm attack. Two South Vietnamese Skyraider aircraft went off course and dropped the incendiary bombs near the…
The Terror of War, June 8, 1972: Kim Phúc, centre, running down a road naked near Trảng Bàng after a South Vietnam Air Force napalm attack
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