The unfolding events in the run up to the Iraq war had

given Tom Hurndall, a 21-year-old British photojournalist, an

increased curiosity and desire to journey to the Middle East. In

February 2003, initially as an observer alongside the Human

Shields, he left with a passion to make a difference, to record

and photograph the truth for himself.

We follow his journey first from Baghdad, then to Amman and

the Al-Rweished refugee camp in Jordan, and finally on to the

town of Rafah in Gaza close to the Egyptian border, where US

peaceworker Rachel Corrie had been killed just weeks previously.

On April 11th, unarmed and wearing an internationally

recognizable orange peacekeeper jacket, he was severely

wounded while carrying Palestinian children to safety. He died

nine months later in a London hospital.

The book follows Tom s life and thoughts in the final weeks

leading up to the shooting. Motivated by a sense of injustice and

striving to remain objective we are drawn into his increasingly

serious photographs and words, through extracts from his diary,

emails and poems.

It is realised through collaboration with the Hurndall family

on the sixth anniversary of the fateful day, no of that fateful day

recent Channel 4 film-documentary The Shooting of Thomas

Hurndall .