The Guardian
Jun 2011
War photographers tell the stories behind their most harrowing images.
On Sebastian Junger’s War and the documentary Restrepo by Tim Hetherington, who was killed in Libya yesterday.
A suitcase was smuggled from Spain to Mexico during the Spanish Civil War containing negatives from three photographers would later become legends and all die in war zones. The suitcase disappeared.
A mission in Baghdad to let a photojournalist get a shot of an insurgent corpse ends up getting a Marine killed.