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David Burnett. He is a magazine photojournalist. His work from the 1979 Iranian revolution was published extensively in Time.
He has won dozens of top awards for his work, including the 1973 Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club for work in Chile, Magazine Photographer of the Year from the National Press Photographers Association, and the World Press Photo of the Year. Burnett lives in Washington, D.C.
He graduated from Colorado College in 1968 and began working as a freelance photographer for Time and Life, first in the United States and later in Vietnam. On June 8, 1972. Burnett was one of the photojournalists present at Trảng Bà ng in Tây Ninh Province when Nick Ut of the Associated Press captured his famous image of the nine-year-old Vietnamese girl Phan Thị Kim Phúc and some other children fleeing a napalm attack. Two South Vietnamese Skyraider aircraft went off course and dropped the incendiary bombs near the journalists, resulting in the deaths of two children and inflicting serious burns on others, including Kim Phúc. Burnett also shot pictures of the scene. After two years in Vietnam, he joined the French photo agency Gamma, travelling the world for its news department for two years.
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