Digital Camera Fiend - A Camera Review

Exactly 35 years to the day after AP Photographer Nick Ut snapped the above Pulitzer Prize winning photo of Vietnamese villagers running from a napalm attack, he snapped this photo seen ’round the world:

From the war-torn villages of SouthEast Asia, to the Hollywood Hills home of a fallen star on her way back to jail, Nick Ut has seen it all in his 40+ years with the Associated Press.

The two photos both taken on June 8 depict vastly different worlds and types of suffering. In his heavily accented English, Ut, a native of Vietnam, had this to say to the AP about capturing the moment outside the Hilton home amid a media feeding frenzy:

“It was a very difficult shot, not easy, but I’m lucky I had one nice shot of her crying, calling ‘Mommy, Mommy’…She upset, she don’t want to go back to jail.”

Strange the places a career in photojournalism will take you.