Vietnamese photographer gives pope famous 'Napalm Girl' picture

Photographer Nick Ut shows to Pope Francis his 1972 picture "The Terror of War", also known as the "Napalm Girl", next to a woman (left) featured in the picture as a child, during the weekly general audience at the Vatican on May 11, 2022. - Third party image via Reuters

VATICAN CITY (Reuters); Award-winning photographer Nick Ut on Wednesday (May 11) gave Pope Francis one of the 20th century's most famous and consequential news pictures, that of a nine-year old Vietnamese girl running naked from a napalm attack in 1972.

The girl in the picture, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, now 59, was also at the pontiff's general audience in St Peter's Square and both chatted with him for a few minutes.