If there is a photographer, life’s work is associated with an indelible way, and then the photographer is nicknamed. Everything was changed by June 8, 1972, when he threw a nine-year-old Phan Kim, from Trang Bàng, 30 kilometers to Northwest Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photograph of the tremendous smoke clouds, Phuc screamed in his mid-its mid, naked and covered with burns, after the vietnam warcuttelled the horrors of the war on the newspaper shows in the coverings around the world. Image, title The panic of warHe then won the world press photo and the Pulitzer Award, and remains one of the most powerful and most embarrassing images of modern conflict.
Phuc’s clothes were burned, and his naked decided to decide for the editor at the time, after all, the public interest decided that he surpassed any bitter about his body. He never consulted. Then the photo became an example of textbooks when analyzing the media ethics. Now, there is a new layer of complexity in mind and continuing the allegation of a long coverage of the photography community and a long coverage of the five decades: if not?
That is the result of the long-function documentary film, StringerIt premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the Sundance Film Festival, by a replacement autonomous, a journalist presented on that day. Draw the findings of the indexes to determine whether filmmakers hired by a French-Court team to extract the image at the right place. Stringer It uses the back to an infamous image, raising questions that go beyond authorship and journalistic integrity and call the wrong use of power.
Photo editor claims
The film’s executive producer, Gary Knight at the VII Foundation, intended to explore the potential story of raw photographer, the image was filmed by someone else’s photo editor of the Saigon photo editor. Carl Robinson says that the image was credited to one of the main photographers of the news agency – “Make it” – stringer (freelancer), delivered the roll of the film with a seminal shot. According to the AP, AP’s AP’s AP for AP, Apparently impossible. The film speculates FAA that he wanted to do something for the UT family, when he worked with his older brother, the Vietnamese photographer killed in 1965.
He entered the same year as a 15-year-old age, with agency for 52 years, he moved to the United States in 1977 and retired 40 years later. Became something of a celebrity, traveled around the world as a photographer Napalm girlSometimes accompanied by Phuc, it is now a Canadian citizen. Phuc talked earlier “agony, I was naked” talking about the unpleasant beginning of the image, but in 2012 he was told that he was proud of Al Jaze. “I find a very powerful gift for me to use to work for peace.”
No one questions the veracity of the photos, but the documentary concludes Nguyen Thanh Nghe, paid by local korders that paid $ 20. And after more than half a century, to his testimony, Nghe was invited to the world premiere in the world of cinema in Sundance, where I stated: “I took a picture.”
Knight and a group of journalists did a two-year research, documented by Vietnamese Film Director Bao Nguyen. Knight tells Art diary Journalists believe that they should also be responsible, “When we consider the rest of the world, you must be willing to study our failures.” In addition to the question of the truth, he said, the wider grain of power of power in journalism, “West White men have dominated, like me,” and which Stringer also addresses. “This film is a metaphor for writing outside the history of journalism, the contribution of local photo journalists and journalists, both Vietnam, and since, especially the most vulnerable team.”
Associated Press Report
AP reuses its internal research before the preview of the film. His report includes narratives of seven people on Trang Bàng’s road.
UT Attorney, James Hornstein, the central complaint of the filmmaker, saying Art diary The photographer was present in the AP office when the film was developed and printed, ready to answer the questions why he got naked girls. “The negative was immediately printed and showed those at the office … Carl Robinson still didn’t have office at that moment.” The filmmakers say that they will present the expressions of audiences that are not seen by images and filmmakers who have not seen a defamation action.
According to a statement released by Hornstein, Phuc refused to participate in the documentary, calling “Nick UT’s shameful and false attack”. It is one of the main critiques of the film and are not missing voices. Another is that AP was not answered. The agency offered a preview, but first he asked to sign the outreach agreement. Eventually, anyone in the screening agency had to listen to allegations properly. AP has called filmmakers to “release their assistants, not to know the knowledge of the film, Nghe” and to share indices findings. “We cannot clearly notify that the associated presses are interested in the facts of this iconic photo and true history.”
Photo of photographers ethics
Art diary He has not seen the documentary, not nearly anyone who was not going to Sundance, it is basically an industry event, where new films are projected to achieve a wider distribution. More performances Stringer It depends on such an agreement, although it is common to show new films at first festivals. However, filmmaking has already sparked the discussion in the world of visual discussion.
Nick UT, has long been shot to shoot The panic of warJoined the associated press when he was 15
Photo: Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo
For Jess Crombie, it is an academic and consultant specializing in the visual story ethics, another aspect of the story that takes priority. “When the images take suffering, the photographer can interact with the person in the picture, [but mostly] They do not involve this person in the constant life of the image. In this case, UT and Phuc has maintained a 14-year-old hiatus relationship with lifestyle. He has become a peace activist and has heated the relationship with UT. This continuous relationship is important: Phuc is not a name for war victim; It’s a real meat and blood human. And UT’s actions, ensuring how to use this image to show discussions, show its humanization. “
There is another tour of the story, however. Writing in the weekend editing Australian On February 8, Robinson explains its version in detail, and did not take the invention that day to hospital, as the photographer has claimed it a long time. It tells Art diary That the event has been a half ago that he has played his conscience. “In 2022, in 2022, it is 80 years old, I still feel the burden of blame and the burden of complicity, I really wanted to find nghe and apologize, sorry.
In his article Robinson tells the story of his first attempt to identify first and then finally tracking Nghe, then with the help of filmmakers and local journalists. It tells Art diary FAAA was generally a hard head but quite hard, which was usually treated well by Cordinges, and it was “unwanted complimit”. But, he added, “Finally, I hope the truth didn’t know that life was not a living thing, but he went anyway.”
UT also has broken silence to his supporters with his assistants 15 on Facebook, who includes a picture of his AP colleagues. “50 years later, I can’t understand why Mr. Carl Robinson was at the time.” I’m very sad in the Bureau leader and Boss Horst FAAA, and all the staff in Saigon. This accusation […] Life, careers, careers, genuine, authentic and true images in front of all, is to create very difficult situations such as Vietnam War. “
