Dith Pran

Dith Pran
ឌិត ប្រន
Dith in 2007
Born(1942-09-27)September 27, 1942
Siem Reap, Cambodia, French Indochina
DiedMarch 30, 2008(2008-03-30) (aged 65)
New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Citizenship
  • Cambodia (until 1986)
  • U.S. (from 1986)
OccupationPhotojournalist
EmployerThe New York Times
Children4

Dith Pran (September 27, 1942 – March 30, 2008) was a Cambodian-American photojournalist. He was a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian genocide and one of the subjects of the Academy Award–winning film The Killing Fields (1984), in which he was portrayed by Haing S. Ngor, a fellow survivor.

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