and documentary photographer Tim Hetherington died yesterday in Libya during the fighting between rebels and troops loyal to Qadhafi. He was 41 years and a couple of months ago had touched the Oscar as co-director of one of the best documentaries of 2010. Restrepo, led hand in hand with Sebastian Junger, tells the story of a U.S. platoon in Afghanistan pushed to control a piece of barren land. The film is strictly an attempt to portray the daily lives of these 15 men thrown into the front line. In fact the camera does not break the circle and has another location, no family, no politicians or senior military officers, there is no narrator, only intended to capture the experience of combat. The snapshot of the same horror Hetherington earned the award World Press Photo 2007 , a paper published in Vanity Fair and a sample that was not a photographer to use, perhaps because most had an aesthetic narrative.
But Hetherington had another personal project that poured in small doses on Vimeo. An experimental daily images which reflected his own experience while photographing and recording the stories took him from Liberia to Libya through Afghanistan. He described himself as "a kaleidoscope of images that link our Western reality seemingly distant worlds we see in the media." This video, which begins almost as Apocalypse Now, draw seamlessly link that sometimes eludes us. I recommend it.
Joining Tim Hetherington and in the same attack killed another renowned photographer, Chris Hondros , the agency Getty Images, to-winning work that occupied the front pages of major newspapers in the world and the pools at the Pulitzer.
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