Showing posts with label Tim Hethrington. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Tim Hetherington, World Press Photo Winner 2007 killed by Gadaffi´s troops in Misratah Libya - RIP

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Photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington talks about his work in Afghanistan, and shooting with the Canon EOS 5D.

Director Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya during intense fighting in Libya during intense fighting in Misratah Libya.

Hetherington, 41, was caught amid fighting between Moammar Gaddafi's forces and rebels in the besieged Libyan city of Misratah and was injured – along with three other photographers – when Gaddafi's forces pounded the city with mortars, The Washington Post reports.

Hetherington was rushed to a nearby hospital and was pronounced dead soon after, the newspaper reports.

Hetherington, a photojournalist and filmmaker, rose to fame with his documentary that followed the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. Hetherington co-produced Restrepo with journalist Sebastian Junger.

Born in Liverpool, England, Hetherington studied literature at Oxford University, and later photojournalism, and was also a contributing photographer for Vanity Fair magazine, according to CNN.