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The Epoch Times cordially invites you to attend an evening with Tim Hetherington, an award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker. He will discuss his new book, Long Story Bit By Bit: Liberia Retold, as well as his upcoming documentary about a platoon of U.S. Airborne soldiers in Afghanistan. A book signing and reception will follow the event

This is the inaugural Ground View forum, the first in a series of intriguing and informative events featuring journalists who have witnessed some of the world's most important news firsthand.

Location: NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute

20 Cooper Square, 6th Floor, New York, NY

Time: Slide show/Discussion/6:30 pm

Book signing and reception to follow

Admission: General Admission $12.00

ONLINE REGISTRATION ONLY

*Online registration closes at 3:00pm day of event. Remaining seats will be sold at door.

Tim Hetherington was born in Liverpool, U.K. He studied literature at Oxford University and later returned to college to study photojournalism. He is based between New York and London, and is a contributing photographer for Vanity Fair magazine. He creates diverse forms of visual communication from long-term projects, and his work has ranged from digital projections at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, to exhibitions in Lagos, to handheld device downloads.

The project Healing Sport was published by Thames and Hudson as part of group project Tales of a Globalizing World (2003), and his new book, Long Story Bit By Bit: Liberia Retold, was published by Umbrage Editions in 2009.

As a filmmaker, he has worked as both a cameraman and director/producer. Recent work includes credits on Liberia: an Uncivil War (2004) and The Devil Came on Horseback (2007). Outpost Films is in production of his forthcoming feature length documentary about of a platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistan, due to be released in 2010.

Hetherington is the recipient of numerous awards including a Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (2000-2004), a Hasselblad Foundation grant (2002), World Press Photo of the Year 2007, the Rory Peck Award for Features (2008), and an Alfred I. duPont award (2009).

Work commissioned by The British Council is currently touring Arabia as part of an exhibition entitled My Fathers House. The exhibition opened in Oman in February, and is currently in Saudi Arabia.

The Epoch Times (www.theepochtimes.com) is an international, multi-language newspaper in print and online. It is published in 17 languages and in over 30 countries. The English edition of The Epoch Times was launched in September 2003 on the web, and in August 2004 in print in New York City, where it is published daily. The English language paper can be found in major cities throughout the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, Malaysia, and in Singapore.