R.I.P. Tim Heatherington

I've been out of the country and without internet access, so I was shocked and saddened when I learned yesterday that photographer and documentarian Tim Heatherington was killed on April 20 while covering the Libyan civil war.

His movie Restrepo almost made my Top Ten list for last year. It's a raw, moving, disturbing, and honest look through the eyes of American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley that everyone should see. This is what modern day war looks like. And Tim was brave enough to go behind the lines with the these soldiers and tell their stories. Before Restrepo, Tim went behind rebel lines in Liberia to cover the civil war there.

Tim left the world all the fascinating images he captured on his camera. This photo of an American soldier in the Korengal Valley was his most famous. It won the prestigous World Press Photo Award in 2007, out of over 75,000 other entries.

Says it all, doesn't it?