Tim Hetherington in Libya: witness to war – in pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery/2011/dec/16/tim-hetherington-libya-war-pictures#/?picture=383295087&index=0

James Brabazon looks back at the previously unpublished final shots of fellow photographer Tim Hetherington, who was killed this year in Libya, where he was continuing his exploration of the ideas and imagery of young men at war. The bright, flash-lit portraits of fighters are part of his evolving attempt to understand how and what the rebels thought of themselves


Imagine for a moment that the man who took these photographs in Libya is not dead. Try, if you can, to forget that these are the last pictures that Tim Hetherington made: the mortar bomb is still in the air over Misrata; the shrapnel still in its casing; Hetherington’s heart still pumping blood that has not been spilled. →


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