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Award-Winning War Photographer Killed in Libya

   VOA News  April 20, 2011
   Tim Hetherington (file photo)

Photo: AP

   Tim Hetherington (file photo)

   An Oscar-nominated film director and war photographer was killed
   Wednesday in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, and three Western
   colleagues were wounded while covering battles between rebels and
   government forces.
   British-born Tim Hetherington was killed by a round of mortar fire on
   Tripoli Street, the main thoroughfare and focus of the fighting in
   Misrata, the only rebel-held city in western Libya. The city has come
   under weeks of relentless shelling by forces loyal to leader Moammar
   Gadhafi.
   News reports say two photographers - Chris Hondros and Guy Martin -
   were gravely wounded in the blast. Their prospects for survival are
   unclear. A third photographer, Michael Brown, suffered light injuries.
   Hondros, an American working for Getty Images, suffered a severe brain
   injury and is in critical condition on a respirator. Martin, a British
   citizen who works for the Panos photo agency, underwent surgery for
   shrapnel wounds.
   The acclaimed 41-year-old Hetherington co-directed the 2010 documentary
   Restrepo, about U.S. soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan.
   Hondros, also 41, has covered conflict zones since the late 1990s,
   including Kosovo, Angola, Iraq and Afghanistan. His awards include the
   Robert Capa Gold Medal, one of the highest prizes in war photography.
   His work in Liberia earned him a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
   The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says two other
   journalists have been killed in the Libyan conflict.
   An unknown gunman killed Mohammed al-Nabbous, founder of the online
   Libya Al-Hurra TV, as he was streaming live audio from a battle in
   Benghazi on March 19. Cameraman Ali Hassan al-Jaber was shot when his
   al-Jazeera television crew was ambushed near Benghazi earlier in March.
   CPJ says three international media workers and at least six Libyan
   journalists are missing and suspected to be held by pro-Gadhafi forces.
   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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