LAOGAI: The Machinery of Repression in China has recently won two awards: the Nautilus Silver Award for “Conscious Media” and the Eric Hoffer Book Award Honorable Mention!

“Tim Hetherington was one of the first documentary photographers with whom I actually sat down and had a conversation,” writes Whitney Johnson on the New Yorker’s Photo Booth blog. Johnson describes Hetherington’s past and present projects (including Umbrage title Long Story Bit By Bit: Liberia Retold) and includes a slideshow of some of Hetherington’s most compelling images.