The main image is known as “The Girl in the Picture” or “The Napalm Girl.” It was taken by photographer Nick Ut and was sold to the Associated Press (AP). The photograph is of Phan Thi Kim Phúc running naked amid other fleeing villagers, South Vietnamese soldiers, and other press photographers. Phan Thi Kim Phúc and her family lived in Trảng Bàng in South Vietnam. On June 8, 1972, South Vietnamese planes dropped napalm on Trảng Bàng, which had been attacked and occupied by North Vietnamese forces. Phúc joined a group of civilians and South Vietnamese soldiers who were fleeing from the Caodai Temple to the safety of South Vietnamese-held positions. The Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilot flying an A-1E Skyraider mistook the group for enemy soldiers and diverted to attack. The bombing killed two of Phúc's cousins and two other villagers. Phúc received third degree burns after her clothing was burned by the fire.
A cropped version of the photo—with the press photographers to the right removed—was featured on the front page of The New York Times the next day. Titled "The Terror of War", it later earned a Pulitzer Prize and was chosen as the World Press Photo of the Year for 1973.

Dinh Q. Lê weaves this iconic image of the Vietnam war as witness to the atrocities of war. He weaves it with red and in black and white.