Tim Hetherington
Film director
1970 – 2011
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Who was Tim Hetherington?
Timothy Alistair Telemachus "Tim" Hetherington was a British-American photojournalist with work that "ranged from multi-screen installations, to fly-poster exhibitions, to handheld device downloads." He was best known for the documentary film Restrepo, which he co-directed with Sebastian Junger; the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2011. 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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- Born
- Dec 5, 1970
Birkenhead - Also known as
- Timothy Alistair Telemachus Hetherington
- Timothy Alistair Telemachus "Tim" Hetherington
- Timothy Hetherington
- Nationality
- England
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
- University of Oxford
- Stonyhurst College
- Cardiff University
- Lived in
- Liverpool
- Died
- Apr 20, 2011
Misurata - Resting place
- Brompton Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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