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Associated Press staff photographer Nick Ut

Associated Press staff photographer Nick Ut in Saigon beside his car in an undated photo.

Associated Press staff photographer Nick Ut in Saigon beside his car in an undated photo.  (Henri Huet / Associated Press)

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After 51 years at the Associated Press, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut announced his retirement. He will hang up his camera, at least for the news service, March of next year.

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Nick Ut won a Pulitzer Prize for this photo of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, center, as she and other Vietnamese children fled an aerial napalm attack on June 8, 1972.

  (Nick Ut / Associated Press)

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Nick Ut, left, and Kim Phuc Phan Thi, UNESCO goodwill ambassador, visit the exhibit “War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath” at L.A.’s Annenberg Space for Photography in 2013.

  (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press)

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Nick Ut on assignment at Echo Park Lake on July 15, 2014.

  (Raul Roa / Los Angeles Times)

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Nick Ut finds that Maria (aka Mario) the Goose is not quite ready for his closeup while meeting the press at the Los Angeles Zoo in 2011.

  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

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Nick Ut on assignment at a crime scene in Altadena on July 6.

  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

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Nick Ut, on assignment at Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shows Juno Spacecraft engineer Elsa Jensen a photo on June 9.

  (Raul Roa / Los Angeles Times)

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Nick Ut shoots a news conference at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department headquarters on May 26, 2015.

  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

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