Artist Statements

Nick Ut

  

Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut, (born March 29, 1951) is a photographer for the Associated Press (AP) who works out of Los Angeles. His best known photo is the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, who was photographed as a naked 9-year-old girl running toward the camera to flee a South Vietnamese napalm attack on the Trảng Bàng village during the Vietnam War.

 "Forgiveness made me free from hatred. I still have many scars on my body and severe pain most days but my heart is cleansed. Napalm is very powerful, but faith, forgiveness and love are much more powerful. We would not have war at all if everyone could learn how to live with true love, hope and forgiveness. If that little girl in the picture can do it, ask yourself: Can you?" -Nick Ut

Baron Wolman

 Baron Wolman is one of the most well-known photographers of the rock and roll years. He is infamous for his photographs of people like Jimi Hendrix and other pioneer and revolutionary musical artists. What started out as being the chief photographer for a new magazine known as Rolling Stones, he has claimed some of the best and most recognizable photographs as his own work.
 He not only witnessed what is without a doubt the most important period of change in popular music and popular culture, but his photographs helped shape it. Rolling Stone magazine encapsulated and distilled the most important events and changes as they were taking place. Each issue would speak to this evolving youth culture in a language that was all its own and Baron’s photos captured the events and personalities, and visualized the music.
 "I don't think we've gained anything by having musicians become celebrities,'' Wolman - who gave up music for fashion, football and aerial photography as the suits took over the rock asylum in the late 1970s - says. ''For me, the celebrity component has totally taken away from the purity of the music. Not only the experience of hearing it, but the experience of playing it.'' -Baron Wolman
Eadweard Muybridge

 Eadweard Muybridge is one of the earliest and most popular photographers in the entire world. He had very revolutionary work for his time period, and much of his work is still well-known even to those who may not really follow the history of photography much. His pioneering came in the form of using still photos to capture motion.
 
Steve McCurry

 

 Most people probably don’t know his name, but almost everyone has seen his images. Steve McCurry is probably the most famous for his image of Sharbat Gula, the Afghani refugee girl with the striking eyes. It has been said that this image is the most recognizable photograph in the world