David Burnett (photojournalist)
 http://contact.photoshelter.com/image/I000088lUebLV9gw One of David Burnett's photos of Phan Thi Kim Phúc, burned by napalm at Trảng Bàng in 1972. Source: Contact Press Images. |
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http://contact.photoshelter.com/image/I0000Ti2Q0lPTt40 David Burnett's photo of another child injured at Trảng Bàng. Source: Contact Press Images. |
David Burnett (born in 1946 in Salt Lake City, USA) is a magazine photojournalist based in Washington, D.C. His work from the 1979 Iranian revolution was published extensively in Time (including its "Man of the Year" portrait of the Ayatollah Khomeini).
He has won dozens of top awards for his work, including the 1973 Robert Capa Gold Medal (with Raymond Depardon and Chas Gerretsen) from the Overseas Press Club for work in Chile, Magazine Photographer of the Year from the National Press Photographers Association, and World Press Photo of the Year.
He was a member of the Gamma photo agency and co-founded Contact Press Images.
He graduated from Colorado College in 1968 and began working as a freelance photographer for Time and Life, first in the United States and later in Vietnam. On June 8, 1972. Burnett was one of the photojournalists 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 journalists, resulting in the deaths of two children and inflicting serious burns on others, including Kim Phúc. Burnett also shot pictures of the scene. After two years in Vietnam, he joined the French photo agency Gamma, travelling the world for its news department for two years.
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