Tim Hetherington

Tim Hetherington born in 1970 in Liverpool is a photographer and photojournalist who was known for his work based on war that gives us new way to look at and think of people suffering. He was known for directing the documentary film Restrepo along with co-director Sebastian Junger (author of the bestseller The Perfect Storm) that was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2011 for best Documentary Feature.

Tim studied literature at Oxford University, and photojournalism at Cardiff University, he was a member go the London based Network Photography agency and later worked with Panos Pictures. In 2007 he published his first book called Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold which documents the civil war in Liberia where he lived in West Africa for eight years with four years spent in Liberia, he later published another book which contains his photographs in Restrepo entitled Infidel.

In April 20, 2011 while covering the conflict in Libya, Tim Hetherington and his colleague and fellow photographer Chris Hondros were killed by libyan forces in a mortar attack in Misurata, he was 40 years old.

This month, Yoshi Milo Gallery is to present an exhibition with Hetherington's photographs which is the first major exhibition of the photojournalist since his death last year.

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http://www.timhetherington.com/

http://www.timh-images.com/

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