Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, who were killed last week covering the fighting in Libya, used their cameras to communicate the human suffering of war.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/business/media/25carr.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Tim and Chris were very different men who died because they had something in common: each thought it important to bear witness, to make images that communicated human suffering and send them out to the world.
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Although Tim Hetherington will best be remembered for his brave, nuanced and sensitive account of the war in Afghanistan, his first book, Long Story Bit By Bit: Liberia Retold, is an overlooked masterpiece.
This is an e-mail sent this morning from C.J. Chivers to the editors at Getty Images and Vanity Fair, describing events in Benghazi, Libya, since the remains of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros arrived at the Benghazi port Thursday night. Mr. Hetherington, the conflict photographer and director of the Afghan war documentary “Restrepo,” and Mr. Hondros, one of the top war photographers of his generation, were killed Wednesday in Misurata, Libya.
Link: Service Held in Benghazi for Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros – NYTimes.com
In lieu of flowers, the loved ones of Chris Hondros kindly request donations be made to The Chris Hondros Fund. This fund will provide scholarships for aspiring photojournalists and raise awareness of issues surrounding conflict photography.
The Chris Hondros Fund
c/o Christina Piaia
50 Bridge Street #414
Brooklyn, New York 11201
The death of an incomparable photojournalist, killed on April 20 while covering the conflict in Libya, is recounted by his collaborator, confrère, and friend.
via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2011/04/sebastian-junger-remembers-tim-hetherington-201104
You had a very specific vision for your work and for your life, and that vision included your death. It didn’t have to, but that’s how it turned out. I’m so sorry, Tim. The conversation we could have had about this crazy stunt of yours! Christ, I would have yelled at you, but you know that. Getting mad was how we kept each other safe, how we kept the other from doing something stupid.
When the first Western photojournalists covering the conflict in Libya were killed Wednesday, the world found out about it through Facebook and Twitter. Now the Facebook page of one of the photographers has become a defacto memorial for the online communi
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/04/journalists-killed-in-libya-news-breaks-on-facebook/
When the first Western photojournalists covering the conflict in Libya were killed Wednesday, the world found out about it through Facebook and Twitter. Now the Facebook page of one of the photographers has become a defacto memorial for the online community to grieve his death and honor his life.
In the end, I believe, that the supreme way to honor Tim and Chris is to do my best, love my family and friends, live life to the fullest and never forget.
Link: on life and loss, death and photojournalism – Shooting from the Hip
Outside magazine called over a month ago to ask if I would interview a photographer for their summer interview issue. I immediately pitched them Tim Hetherington whose work I admired although I’d never met or spoken with him before. The body of work he cr
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/04/21/tim-hetheringtons-last-interview/
Outside magazine called over a month ago to ask if I would interview a photographer for their summer interview issue. I immediately pitched them Tim Hetherington whose work I admired although I’d never met or spoken with him before.
Editor’s note: This post has been updated most recently on 1 May 2011. All the link additions can be found at the bottom of the post. The world lost Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in Liby…
via P H O T O J O U R N A L I S M L I N K S: http://photojournalismlinks.com/2011/04/21/in-memoriam-tim-hetherington-1970-2011-chris-hondros-1970-2011/
I would like to dedicate this post to the memory of the two men and to their friends and family. My thoughts are with them at this very sad time. I can only imagine the pain felt by those who knew Tim and Chris personally. I hope friends and family can find some solace in the fact that neither of them lived their lives in vain. Not only did both Hetherington and Hondros spend most of their careers highlighting important issues that would have otherwise been ignored or overlooked by the general public in countries such the UK and US, but they also practiced their craft at the very top tier of our industry to a very high standard and they were setting a mark towards which the rest of us should always strive for. Tim and Chris will be greatly missed.
I first met Chris while I was a sports intern at Getty last October. On the day I met him I was meeting with news editors, showing them my book. Hondros tried to quietly slipped through the office’s glass doors, but his presence was immediately known. As he entered, Sandy, the editor I was working with, excitedly said, “Look! That’s Chris Hondros, have you met him? He’s the nicest guy, just got back from Afghanistan.”
It is a terrible day for photography as we have lost two of our own.
Link: RIP Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
highlights of Hetherington’s photography for Vanity Fair.
Link: Tim Hetherington: A Vanity Fair Portfolio | Politics | Vanity Fair
I am totally not up to this…Writing obits is not what I do…This will not be my best of anything. Yet, it is all I can do at the moment. I found out yesterday, at exactly this time by te…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2011/04/only-the-good-die-young/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+burnmag
I found out yesterday, at exactly this time by text message while driving in a blinding rainstorm, that my friend and next door neighbor Tim Hetherington had been killed in Libya along with colleague Chris Hondros. Mike Brown , who lives just upstairs and featured here with his Libya work was thankfully spared…So, two men who hang with me at home, stop by for a beer from time to time, were caught in the same mortar attack and one of them gone forever. I did not know Chris Hondros, but was an admirer of his work. I write here only of my friend Tim.
A contributing photographer for Vanity Fair, Hetherington died shortly after arriving at hospital in Misrata. Hondros clung to life for several hours in a coma before he died from what Italian doctors said was an irreversible brain trauma. Reports are Hondros was revived at least two times, but Getty Images has now confirmed his death at Hikma Hospital after rumors of his passing circulated in the States for several hours.
Tim Hetherington was a great photographer. That was just the starting point.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/parting-glance-tim-hetherington/
To call Tim Hetherington a great photographer would be a mistake. That’s not how he saw it.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/04/20/tim-hetherington-in-memoriam/
Today, the devastating news arrived that Tim Hetherington had been killed in Misratah, Libya. He was many things: a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker, an artist and friend. He recently won popular acclaim after the documentary Restrepo, which he directed, was nominated for an Oscar. Tim was always trying to pull together the bits and pieces of all the news that was going on around him, to figure out how to follow them through to tell the whole story. He did that with war and, more specifically, with the men who go to war.
Tim’s final Twitter post sheds a stark light on the current state of Libya:
“In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO.”
Northwestern University in Evanston, IL is to host the conference ‘Blogging Images: Photojournalism and Public Commentary’ on Saturday, April 30th. Robert Hariman explains why here: …
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/blogging-images-photojournalism-and-public-commentary/
Northwestern University in Evanston, IL is to host the conference ‘Blogging Images: Photojournalism and Public Commentary’ on Saturday, April 30th
Our thoughts go out to the families of Hetherington and Hondros and other journalists in danger in Libya and elsewhere.
Link: Photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros killed in Libya | dvafoto
You usually wait for two sources on a story like this but I know Andre. Terrible.