English: Part of the photoessay Boat of No Smiles, about a group of Vietnamese boat people seeking refuge.
As captioned in the Southern Illinoisan: "A Vietnamese woman holds her sick child as she pleads for help from fishing boat carrying 48 other refugees".
The woman is Nguyen Thi Yen.
This photograph was selected by Time magazine in 2016 for inclusion in 100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
No instance was found of the photograph being published with a proper copyright notice in 1977. Examples of newspapers where it was published without copyright notice:
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