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The bunker is named "Restrepo" after a soldier from his platoon who was recently killed by insurgents. <br/> <br/> It was taken on September 16, 2007, in the Korengal Valley, a strategic passage considered one of the most dangerous pieces of terrain for US forces in the world. With Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters fighting for control of the valley, it has seen some of the deadliest battles in the country, including the downing of a US helicopter in 2005 that killed all 16 commandos on board. <br/> <br/> “This image shows the exhaustion of a man and the exhaustion of a nation,” Gary Knight, the jury chairman, said in a statement. “We’re all connected to this. It is a picture of a man at the end of a line.” <br/> <br/> Mary Anne Golon, a fellow juror, commented: "I use all my energy to have people notice bad things. There’s a human quality to this picture. It says that conflict is the basis of this man’s life."<br/> <br/> The colour photograph also took the second prize in the General News Stories category. <br/> <br/> Liverpool-born Mr Hetherington spent five months embedded with the 2nd Battalion Airborne of the 503rd US infantry while working with journalist Sebastian Junger on both a film for ABC and a story for Vanity Fair’s January 2008 issue titled <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/01/afghanistan200801">“Into the valley of death”</a> . <br/> <br/> In a <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/video/2008/junger_hetherington_video200801">video</a> recorded for Vanity Fair’s website, Mr Hetherington spoke of his fascination with the discordance between the soldiers’ home lives and the alien environment which they had been thrust into. <br/> <br/> “A lot of them are from Texas or the Midwest, classic middle America that I had never really been close to, and here I was in Afghanistan experiencing combat with these guys. And I suppose that’s what really struck me about them, this dissonance between what they were experiencing and where they had come from.” <br/> <br/> He said: “If you look at the statistics there have been 450 separate fire-fights in the five-and-a-half months of Battle Company’s deployment there. The type of fire-fights and the type of combat involved is a range, from indirect fire which can be where mortars are hitting one of the fire bases there to machine gun attacks to snipers.” <br/> <br/> As a photojournalist he tried to stay as close as possible to the action without endangering his own life and the lives of others, he explained. “There’s an oft-said comment by Robert Kappa that if your pictures aren’t good enough it’s because you’re not close enough, so I try to stay as close as possible to the action while also being aware of cover and aware of safety.” <br/> <br/> Mr Hetherington, who works as both a photographer and filmmaker and had won lesser prizes in the awards in 2000 and 2002, was this morning onboard a flight from the Pacific island of Palau and was expected to arrive in New York later today. It was unclear whether he had been informed of his success in the competition, which carries a cash prize of 10,000 euro. <br/> <br/> The awards, sponsored by the Dutch Postcode Lottery, Cannon and TNT, attracted a record 5,019 entrants this year from 125 countries. <br/> <br/> In addition to the overall winner, the jury awarded first, second and third prizes in 20 categories, and two honourable mentions. Getty Images won the most with five awards, taking first place in both Spot News Singles and Spot News Stories with a blurred image by John Moore, a US photographer, taken at the moment of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on December 27. <br/> <br/> A mesmerising shot of a dead mountain gorilla being carried out of Virunga National Park in Eastern Congo, strapped to a wooden stretcher, won a further award for Getty. 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AP also won an honorable mention for Spot News Singles for an image from the Gaza Strip by Emilio Morenatti, a Spanish photographer. <br/> <br/> Balazs Gardi, a Hungarian photographer working for VII Network, took first prize in both General News Singles and General News Stories for his photographs from Afghanistan - one of a man carrying a wounded young boy, and an eerie black-and-white shot of a mountain landscape titled “Operation Rock Avalanche.” <br/> <br/> Both were taken in the same region of southern Afghanistan as Mr Hetherington’s image. <br/> <br/> National Geographic swept the board in the Nature Stories category, with first place going to National Geographic Images for David Liittschwager’s magnified images of ocean life off the coast of Hawaii, and second and third places being awarded to National Geographic Magazine. <br/> <br/> The British chalked up another success in the Portraits category, with UK photographer “Platon” taking first place with his head shot of President Vladimir Putin of Russia for Time magazine. Time also won in the People in the News category, with a photo of Kurdish rebel fighters in Northern Iraq taken by Philippe Dudouit of Switzerland. <br/> <br/> Bulgarian Ivaylo Velev took the top prize in the Sports Action Singles category for Bul X Vision Photography Agency with his image of competitive skier Philippe Meier fleeing an avalanche in Flaine, France.Read Full Article Ruminations on Food as Soap, Food for Singles and Henry MillerIt is time again to ask 20 questions about advertising, marketing, media and popular culture.Read Full Article Universal Music puts its faith in memory cure for sliding salesUniversal Music, the world’s biggest music company, is to release singles on USB memory sticks this month, in an attempt to arrest the decline in music sales.Read Full Article External News for: singlesBritish rookie Taio Cruz rules US singles chart - ReutersChina DailyBritish rookie Taio Cruz rules US singles chartReuters1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart in the United States. 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