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May 7, 2011
Tim Hetherington was an acclaimed documentary or war photographer and film maker. He was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade along with the photojournalist Chris Hondros in the besieged port city of Misrata, Libya, on April 20.
Tim Hetherington, a still from Restrepo
Restrepo, a year in the life of one U.S. military platoon that had been dropped into Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, where everything from the landscape to the local customs is fraught with peril. Restrepo captures the combination of determination, disorientation, and despair that so many soldiers have said characterizes this war.
Hetherington had left a successful stills career behind to follow up his Oscar-nominated film documentary about the American Marines in Afghanistan and was shooting more video. War photographers are increasingly expected to shoot video – and without the back-up that a TV crew might expect.
Roger Tooth in The Guardian says:
This leads to a new sort of moving visual journalism that is more immediate and personal, without the reporter between the viewer and the action.It feeds off the strengths of the photographer the need to get in close, the need to create a relationship with the fighters he's working alongside.
However, the e amount of war photojournalism being published by news organisations has shrunk dramatically over the years.
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