1. Timothy Alistair Telemachus Hetherington was a British photojournalist.
20 Facts About Tim Hetherington
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Tim Hetherington produced books, films and other work that "ranged from multi-screen installations, to fly-poster exhibitions, to handheld device downloads" and was a regular contributor to Vanity Fair.
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Tim Hetherington was best known for the documentary film Restrepo, which he co-directed with Sebastian Junger.
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Tim Hetherington was killed by shrapnel from either a mortar shell or an RPG fired by Libyan forces while covering the 2011 Libyan civil war.
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Tim Hetherington was their sole staff photographer, photographing homeless shelters, demonstrations, dockers' strikes, boxing gyms, celebrities, etc.
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Tim Hetherington was not fond of his celebrity assignments, wanting to focus on what he believed to be more serious stories.
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Tim Hetherington spent much of the next decade in West Africa, documenting political upheaval and its effects on daily life in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and other countries.
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Tim Hetherington worked as a photographer on the films Liberia: An Uncivil War and The Devil Came on Horseback.
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In 2006, Tim Hetherington took a break from image-making to work as an investigator for the United Nations Security Council's Liberia Sanctions Committee.
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Tim Hetherington made several trips to Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008 with writer Sebastian Junger, on assignment for Vanity Fair.
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Tim Hetherington created a unique video installation called Sleeping Soldiers, first shown at the 2009 New York Photo Festival.
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Tim Hetherington was killed while covering the front lines in the besieged city of Misrata, Libya, during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
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Tim Hetherington survived the initial incident and was loaded into a van alive, but died due to excessive blood loss.
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Tim Hetherington was buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, survived by his partner, parents, sister, brother, and several nieces and nephews.
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Tim Hetherington was in a romantic relationship with Idil Ibrahim before he was killed during the Libyan Civil War.
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The Tim Hetherington Grant is awarded annually by World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch to a photographer who has participated in a recent World Press Photo Contest in order to finalise a project on a human rights theme.
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Tim Hetherington was preparing to apply to the photo agency before he died.
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Tim Hetherington's estate is represented by Imperial War Museums.
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The Tim Hetherington Trust was set up in 2012 by Hetherington's parents Judith and Alistair, with Stephen Mayes its executive director.
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The Tim Hetherington Photobook Library is a library of roughly 1200 photography books at the Bronx Documentary Center, 614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx, New York.