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Restrepo
 

A film by

Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger

2010 Academy Award

Best Documentary Feature

Nominee
 

All photographs © Tim Hetherington / Chris Boot Ltd

A selection of press images are available from Tim Hetherington's book, Infidel, which focuses entirely on the platoon of American soldiers with whom he and Junger were embedded while filming Restrepo.

If you would like any further information about the book Infidel, would like to see a press release or request permission to use images from the book,  

please contact Maxwell Anderson at:

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Very different from usual photojournalists' accounts of war, Tim Hetherington's book doesn't consider the morality of intervention in Afghanistan - there are no Afghans in the book at all - and it's not grim. The photographs, texts and tattoo graphics in the book deal with these soldiers motivations and beliefs, their sense of identity, how they face death, and the idea of love between men at war.

Tim Hetherington: Infidel

Infidel is an intimate portrait of a single U.S. platoon, assigned to an outpost in the Korengal Valley-an area considered one of the most dangerous Afghan postings in the war against the Taliban-but it is as much about love and male vulnerability as it is about bravery and war. Embedded with writer Sebastian Junger, and shooting over the course of one year, photographer Tim Hetherington made a series of images that prove surprisingly tender in their depiction of camaraderie and vulnerability (among the most moving is a series of the platoon sleeping). Alongside revealing interviews with Hetherington's subjects and an introduction by Junger (with whom Hetherington co-directed the award-winning film Restrepo, about the work of the battalion), the book is also illustrated with graphics of the tattoos the soldiers gave each other in the camp. The title Infidel is taken from the tattoo the men adopted as a badge of their comradeship. Warm, moving and full of humor, this book is a tribute to the "rough men ready to do violence on our behalf" and a provocative contribution to the documentation of war in our time.

U.S. LIST PRICE: U.S. $35.00
CANADIAN PRICE: CAN $42
ISBN: 9781905712182
FORMAT: Flexi, 6 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color.
PUBLISHER: Chris Boot
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