05/31/2026
Nam Mô Bổn Sư Thích Ca Mâu Ni Phật
Bản tin hôm 26 tháng 5 năm 2026 từ hãng thông tấn AP đưa tin về cựu nhiếp ảnh gia chiến trường của AP Đặng Văn Phước, đã ra đi ở tuổi 91 tại thành phố Irvine , California.
Cũng vừa lúc Hòa thượng Viện Chủ Pháp Vân nhận được ai tín từ gia quyến của đạo hữu MINH PHƯỚC Đặng Văn Phước cựu Bác Gia Trưởng Gia Đình Phật Tử Pháp Vân đã thuận thế vô thường tại Irvine , California. Hưởng thọ 91 tuổi .
Sinh thời, Đạo hữu MINH PHƯỚC Đặng Văn Phước cùng gia đình đã là những vị hộ pháp cho ngội Tam Bảo Pháp Vân nói chung và Gia Đình Phật Tử Pháp Vân nói riêng trong cương vị Bác Gia Trưởng ( Đệ Nhị) một thời gian sau những năm đơn vị thành lập đến những năm thuộc thập niên tám mươi.
Hòa thượng Viện chủ Thích Chơn Trí
cùng Chư Tăng Ni và Phật tử Chùa Pháp Vân
Xin thành kính phân ưu cùng bà quả phụ Đăng Văn Phước nhũ danh Phạm Thị Hoa và tang gia hiếu quyến
Nhất tâm cầu nguyện cố Phật Tử ĐẶNG VĂN PHƯỚC
Pháp danh MINH PHƯỚC
Vãng Sanh Cảnh Giới An Lành
Nam Mô Bổn Sư Thích Ca Mâu Ni Phật
BY GILLIAN FLACCUS AND HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
Updated 6:27 PM PDT, May 26, 2026
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Former Associated Press photographer Dang Van Phuoc, who was wounded multiple times during the Vietnam War and returned to capture the action even after losing an eye in an explosion, has died. He was 91.
Phuoc died Saturday in Southern California after collapsing suddenly, his nephew, Van Nguyen, said.
Phuoc was hired in 1965 by AP’s former photo chief, Horst Faas, to replace another local hire who had been killed on assignment. He quickly gained a reputation among other journalists and the U.S. and South Vietnamese troops for his uncanny ability to find the thick of the action.
Phuoc was born in a Vietnamese village near Quang Ngai, south of Da Nang, in 1935 and was the youngest of many siblings. When he was about 10, his father was killed by local members of the Viet Cong insurgency. A few years later, his mother died, leaving him homeless.
When Saigon fell in 1975, Phuoc fled with his family with little more than the clothes on their back and a bottle of milk. His family was rescued from a refugee camp in Guam with the help of AP reporter Linda Deutsch, who was covering the tent city, and flown to Camp Pendleton.
Phuoc then returned to Asia and worked briefly for the AP in Hong Kong before leaving the company and settling permanently in Southern California with his family.
He went on to become a professional portrait photographer in Orange County, which is home to Little Saigon, the largest single community of South Vietnamese refugees in the world.
His great-nephew, Kim Nguyen, looked back Tuesday at the portraits Phuoc shot of him as a baby and reminisced about bringing his own son to see Phuoc’s work on display at a museum in Vietnam.
In California, Phuoc was a founding member of The Artistic Photography Association and trained young photographers. He also was a civilian volunteer for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and in 1994 was named the county’s volunteer of the year.
Schoenbaum reported from Salt Lake City.
