Revisiting Misrata, After Tim and Chris. TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev and I recently spent two weeks driving across Libya, from east to west, surveying the aftermath of the Arab Spring’s most thorough revolution to get a sense of the lessons learned and the challenges that still lie ahead for the vast, oil-rich country. The war-ravaged city of Misrata was one of the key stops on our journey, not only for its significance as perhaps the most brutally repressed flashpoint in Libya’s uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, but also because of its significance on the emotional map of many foreign correspondents who covered this war, myself and Yuri included. Yuri lost one of his close friends here, Tim Hetherington.
Hetherington, an award-winning British photographer and director, was killed along with the great American photographer Chris Hondros, while covering the fighting on Misrata’s Tripoli Street on April 20, 2011. Yuri never made it there; the sudden deaths of Hetherington and Hondros put an end to those plans. Tim Hetherington’s legacy: A mother’s perspective on her son’s war photography - The Style Blog. Posted at 03:16 PM ET, 04/11/2012 Apr 11, 2012 07:16 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost By May-Ying Lam “We’re not ready for this.” “I felt like I was like fish in a barrel.” “Did everybody from the country come to this valley? These are the voices from conflict photographer and film director Tim Hetherington’s Oscar-nominated documentary, “Restrepo.” Now, take that same fear, and imagine you haven’t had years of combat training. “I didn’t really worry,” Judith Hetherington, mother of “Restrepo” co-director Tim Hetherington said. Tim Hetherington, who won World Press Photo of the Year in 2007, made international headlines when he and Getty photojournalist Chris Hondros were killed during an attack by Moammar Gaddafi’s forces while photographing on rebel front lines in Misurata, Libya, on April 20, 2011.
Libya, April 9, 2011. Tim Hetherington on crutches in London on Dec. 20, 2007, after breaking his leg while shooting the Afghan war documentary “Restrepo.” Artists - Tim Hetherington. Tim Hetherington. Tim Hetherington: A Vanity Fair Portfolio | Politics. A New Documentary on Tim Hetherington by Sebastian Junger.