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21 April 2011
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In pictures: Tim Hetherington
British photographer Tim Hetherington (pictured) has been killed in a mortar attack in Misrata, Libya. US photographer Chris Hondros, 41, was also killed, and two others, including Briton Guy Martin, were injured.
Tim Hetherington was born in Liverpool and studied literature and photojournalism. He was drawn to Africa early in his career. Here a boy stands with a punctured football on a street in Monrovia, Liberia.
Hetherington was the only photographer to live behind rebel lines during the 2003 conflict in Liberia.
His pictures stood out from those of many of his contemporaries. Using a film-based medium-format camera, he looked for new ways to tell stories.
He spent five years on the project, and his photographs provided evidence of the horrors and desperation of war. He also became an investigator on the panel of experts for the UN Security Council's Liberia sanctions committee.
In 2004 he covered the tsunami that struck Indonesia and other parts of Asia.
The war in Afghanistan was to provide Hetherington with some of his most dramatic pictures.
Together with best-selling American author of The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger, Hetherington chronicled Battle Company's gruelling 15-month tour of duty in an outpost called Restrepo in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
This picture won the World Press Photo Award in 2007, and a film shot by Hetherington in Restrepo won an Oscar nomination and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
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