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Surprising statement from World Press Photo. It has suspended the authorship attributed to the photo of the 'Napalm Girl', an image that represents the symbol as the portrait of pain in the Vietnam War.
It was the executive director of the institution, Joumana El Zein Khoury, who through a signed statement details that World Press Photo doubts that Nick Ut took the image. It was chosen as photo of the year in 1973 under the title 'The Terror of War'. It also received the Pulitzer Prize.
It all started after the premiere of The Stringer, a documentary that was presented at the Sundance Film Festival. That was when doubts about its authorship began to be raised. World Press Photo began "our own investigative analysis into the authorship of The Terror of War," it explains. And, therefore, it adds that "it presents compelling evidence that the photo may have been taken by Nguyen Thành Nghe, a Vietnamese AP contributor."
"Our analysis included a comprehensive review"
"Our analysis included a thorough review of both the documentary's findings and AP's in-depth internal investigation," it explains in the statement. "The level of doubt is too significant," they acknowledge, and, at the same time, "without conclusive evidence pointing definitively to another photographer, we cannot reassign authorship either."
However, the doubts surrounding authorship do not detract from the relevance of the image. "It is important to note that the photograph itself is not in dispute, and the award given to the image stands. Only the authorship is being reviewed."