Nick Ut to exhibit in Little Saigon
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
The photojournalist who won the Pulitzer for one of the most iconic pictures of our times is opening a photo exhibit at Nguoi Viet’s community room tomorrow Friday.
Nick Ut, whose photo of the crying naked girl fleeing napalm bombing was circulated around the world, and his friend Huynh Ngoc Dan will hold their joint exhibition on three days, from February 12 through 14, 11am to 6pm. The opening reception will be from 8pm to 9pm Friday.
Coincidentally, the two had planned this joint exhibit in Saigon in 2007. However, in the last minute, the local photography association, ticked off that they weren’t allowed more say in who’s invited to the opening, cancelled it. Many Vietnamese papers reported on the cancellation, for example here (in Vietnamese).

The director (pictured right) is a graduate of SMU’s Meadows School with a B.A. with honors in Cinema, and also a Bruin, having graduated from UCLA’s Producers Program with an MFA. She is also, get this, a former Miss Asian American Texas 1999-2000.

Artist Nguyen Van Bay (pictured right) was born in Chau Doc, in the southwest part of Vietnam, in 1938. He was graduated from Vietnam’s premiere art school in Gia Dinh in 1961 and for several decades taught painting in Saigon. Back in the 1960s, Bay won a serious number of international awards.




A pianist some consider the best Viet pianist of her generation is scheduled to perform at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Massachussetts this weekend.
A mega gathering of Viet creatives is taking place in New York City next weekend, hosted by thatsneaat, an Asian Art blog.


But Nuygen did get an appointment to speak to the Dean of the School of Arts, the Department Head of Photography, the Director of the gallery holding the exhibit, and Brian Doan.