Tim Hetherington – a retrospective in pictures

Tim Hetherington poses next to his winning World Press Photo image in Hamburg, Germany Photograph: Jens Ressing/EPA

An exhausted American soldier at Restrepo bunker in Afghanistan Photograph: Tim Hetherington/Panos

The US military use a white phosphorus incendiary bomb against insurgents Photograph: Tim Hetherington/Panos

US soldier Jones practises his golf swing in Korengal Valley, Kunar Photograph: Tim Hetherington/Panos

The men of 2nd platoon gather at the Restrepo outpost before heading outside the wire on patrol Photograph: Tim Hetherington/Panos

A US Black Hawk helicopter descends on to the roof of a house to remove a soldier after a meeting with villagers to discuss insurgent activity. Photograph: Tim Hetherington/Panos

A still from the award-winning and Oscar-nominated film Restrepo Photograph: Tim Hetherington

Muslim schoolgirls play on the beach a year after the tsunami hit south Asia in 2004 Photograph: Tim Hetherington/Panos

A chair slumped amid the destruction caused by the tsunami that struck south Asia Photograph: Tim Hetherington/Panos

A pupil at the Milton Margai School for the Blind in Sierra Leone Photograph: Tim Hetherington/Panos

Pupils at the Milton Margai school in Sierra Leone Photograph: Tim Hetherington/Panos

UN observers are stopped at a checkpoint on the road to Banalia, Democratic Republic of Congo Photograph: Tim Hetherington/Network

Major Mamadou of the Manilan Airforce inspecting bomb damage sustained during the capture of Kisangani in the Congo Photograph: Tim Hetherington/Network

UN observers based in Kisangani on observation at the local airport with the company commander of Rwandan backed RCD-Goma Photograph: Tim Hetherington/Network