World Press Photo Awards Announced
By Megan • Feb 12th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyJay DeFoore reports for Pop Photo:
“UK photographer Tim Hetherington’s image of an exhausted U.S. soldier in a moment of respite after intense fighting in Afghanistan has won the 2007 World Press Photo Contest, one of the most prestigious prizes in photojournalism.
Hetherington made the photo of the unnamed soldier last September while on assignment for Vanity Fair. The shot was taken at the so-called “Restrepo” bunker, named after a soldier from his platoon who was recently killed by insurgents. The soldier depicted in the photo is a member of the 2nd Battalion Airborne of the 503rd U.S. infantry division, a unit deployed in the Korengal Valley in the Eastern province of Afghanistan. According to the World Press Photo Website, the valley is infamous as the site of downing of a U.S. helicopter and has seen some of the most intense fighting in the country.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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