In January the Englishman Tim A. Hetherington (Liverpool 1970) was named winner of the World Press Photo of the Year 2007. He was singled out for his series of photos about American soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. The American magazine Vanity Fair had commissioned the series. Remarkably, the magazine did not print the photo of the exhausted soldier, proclaimed the World Press Photo, publishing it only on the Vanity Fair website. On Sunday April 27th in Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, Prince Constantijn, royal patron of World Press Photo, will bestow the prize on Hetherington.
