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About US-American photographer David BURNETT (b. 1946, in Holladay, Utah)
David BURNETT is an American magazine photojournalist based in Washington, D.C. In 1968, after his graduation from the Colorado College, he began working as a freelance photographer for Time and Life, first in the United States and later in Vietnam. On June 8, 1972. he was one of the photojournalists present at Trảng Bàng in Tây Ninh Province when Nick UT captured his famous image of the nine-year-old Vietnamese girl Phan Thị Kim Phúc and some other children fleeing a napalm attack. David BURNETT also photographed the scene. After two years in Vietnam, he joined the French photo agency Gamma, traveling the world for its news department for two years. In 1975, he co-founded a new photo agency, Contact Press Images, in New York City. For the last three decades he has traveled extensively, working for most of the major magazines in the United States and Europe. His work from the 1979 Iranian revolution was published extensively in Time (including its 'Man of the Year' portrait of the Ayatollah Khomeini).
Photo books by as well as with works by David BURNETT
- '44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World' (2009); 'Soul Rebel' (2009); 'We Choose to Go to the Moon' (2019); 'The Outsiders ‘Rare and Unseen’ (2022); 'Septembre au Chili, 1971/1973' (2023, with Raymond DEPARDON)
Accolades
- 1973: Robert Capa Gold Medal (with Raymond DEPARDON and Chas GERRETSEN)
1980: World Press Photo of the Year with a photograph of a Cambodian woman holding her child in her arms waiting for food to be distributed at a refugee camp; 'Magazine Photographer of the Year' by the National Press Photographers Association