{"id":208,"date":"2008-02-08T12:33:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T12:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=208"},"modified":"2008-02-08T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T12:33:25","slug":"tim-hetherington-wins-world-press-photo-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Tim Hetherington wins World Press Photo Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to UK photographer <strong>Tim Hetherington<\/strong>, whose colour image of an American soldier resting in a bunker in Afghanistan has won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpressphoto.org\/index.php?option=com_photogallery&amp;task=view&amp;id=1095&amp;Itemid=187&amp;bandwidth=high\" target=\"_blank\">2007 World Press Photo Prize<\/a>.   It is a picture that captures, as jury chair <em>Gary Knight<\/em> of <em>VII<\/em> notes &#8220;&#8221;t<em>he exhaustion of a man &#8211; and the exhaustion of a nation<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalpicture.org\/mentalpicture\/home\/176\" target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a>, he says &#8220;I&#8217;m currently in New York recuperating after an accident in Afghanistan.&#8221;  He was in the country on assignment for &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2008\/01\/afghanistan200801\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>&#8216;, where there is also a slide show of 15 of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2008\/01\/afghanportraits_slideshow200801\" target=\"_blank\">portraits of soldiers<\/a> and another of 15 images from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2008\/01\/afghanistan_slideshow200801\" target=\"_blank\">Korengal Valley<\/a> &#8211; the winning image is the final picture of this. There is also a video discussion between Hetherington and Sebastian Junger, the writer of the feature.<\/p>\n<p>You can also see it and  all the other winners on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpressphoto.org\/index.php?option=com_photogallery&amp;task=blogsection&amp;id=18&amp;Itemid=187&amp;bandwidth=high\" target=\"_blank\">World Press Photo 2008<\/a> pages, which will be occupying me for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to UK photographer Tim Hetherington, whose colour image of an American soldier resting in a bunker in Afghanistan has won the 2007 World Press Photo Prize. It is a picture that captures, as jury chair Gary Knight of VII notes &#8220;&#8221;the exhaustion of a man &#8211; and the exhaustion of a nation.&#8221; On his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=208\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tim Hetherington wins World Press Photo Prize<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}