Second Blog

 

This photo is showing a little girl and her brother and cousins running for there lives in the middle of the Vietnam war. The photo was taken in 1772 by a photographer named Nick Ut who was working for the Associated Press at the time when he took this famous photo. This young girl is named Kim Phuc and she was only nine years old, she is now 59 and still living today. 

 Throughout her years she have spoken up in many interviews on her traumatic experience doing that time and what she had to endure. The reason for her nudeness is because a Vietnam air shuttle accidently dropped a bomb on there own sight where Kim Phuc and her family was close by. The toxic fumes of the bomb got on her clothes and they immediately started to burn off, which unfortunately it did reach her skin. she was rushed to a safe house where they put her in a ice bath and removed her dead skin. fun fact is that she hated that photo of her naked self, she says it was "embarrassing" to look at herself and also triggering to have her pain be showed to the world without her permission. she began to hate the world and herself because of that picture and that resulted to her wanting to take her own life but she found clarity when she joined church and learned to except what have happened to her and forgive others wrong doings on to her. 

    In my opinion photography means to capture a meaning or special moment in life, its to capture what you think is impactful and its your decision if you want to show it to the world or not. This photo captured the pain and hardship everyone was facing and going through doing the Vietnam war and how not only did it effect adults it harmed children as well. I think the placement of the shot was well put because having her in the center makes a viewer eye be drawn to her and I love how he took a medium wide shot instead of a close up just so you can feel the chaos around her. In the article of Marvin Heiferman Photography Changes Everything slide 8 it talks about how photography changes what we see