General News, 2nd prize
Tim Hetherington
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
01 January, 2007
September - October 2007: A mortar company of the Second Battalion of the US 503rd Infantry Regiment returns fire from the Kop base, the main US base in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan. Nearly three-quarters of all bombs dropped by NATO forces in Afghanistan are dropped on and around this valley. Yet much of the fighting is on foot, and ground gained is measured in yards, single hilltops, small patches of forest.
Tim Hetherington
Tim Hetherington (Liverpool, UK, 1970 - Misrata, Libya, 2011) studied literature at Oxford University and after traveling independently in China, India and Pakistan, initially wo...
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