Tim Hetherington is a contributing photographer for Vanity Fair magazine and is based in New York. He was a cameraman on Liberia: an Uncivil War (2004) and The Devil Came on Horseback (2007), and his directorial debut film Restrepo was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. His book Infidel will be published by Chris Boot in October 2010.

Tim Hetherington, who spent a year embedded in Afghanistan with writer Sebastian Junger, recalls his time on the ground amid fire fights, and how they made their documentary Restrepo.