Photojournalists Killed in Libya

Written by Pat's Papers | Thursday, 21 April 2011 6:12 AM


The fighting in Libya took the lives of two acclaimed photojournalists yesterday reports the New York Post. Tim Hetherington, whose documentary “Restrepo” was nominated for an Academy Award this year and Chris Hondros, a veteran war photographer died after a mortar attack hit while they were covering “door-to-door firefights between rebel Libyan forces and government loyalists.”

Hondros worked for Getty Images and moments before he died he was “climbing dark, dangerous stairwells” with the rebel forces searching for loyalists. His final photos, filed right before the mortar attack, show the scene. The Washington Post put together a nice slideshow featuring his final images as well as some of his work from Afghanistan and Egypt.

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Hetherington was in Libya on assignment for Vanity Fair. The magazine put together a nice slideshow of his work, past and present.

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