on what it means to be a man. What is it about war that really draws men?” The inventory of Tim Hetherington’s work and awards tells the story of an intrepid journalist and filmmaker who covered conflict and humanitarian issues at the highest levels; he was recognized as a committed human rights activist and a visionary for the issues he covered and an innovator in the media he used to describe what he saw. Hetherington was equally well known in television and film circles as he was in print with an Oscar nomination, two Emmy’s, the World Press Photo premiere award and an eclectic client list that included ABC TV, Vanity Fair and Human Rights Watch. After graduating from Cardiff University in 1997 with a degree in photojournalism, Hetherington experimented with multimedia and he persistently rehearsed his pioneering approach in privately circulated multimedia pieces that ultimately culminated in his Academy nomination for the documentary “Restrepo” in 2010. Even as he walked the red carpet he was working on the next innovation and later in 2010 he self-published “Diary”, an extraordinary manifesto of documentary narrative in a new form that broke the conventions of linear story-telling. For Hetherington it was never enough to simply witness events, he had to experience the lives of his subjects. He spent nearly eight years working in West Africa and lived through the second Liberian civil war with unprecedented access to the rebel forces. It was this insight and passion that subsequently qualified him to work with the United Nations Security Council as an investigator for the Liberia Sanctions Committee. In 2007 he accepted an assignment from Vanity Fair to work with writer Sebastian Junger to document the American campaign in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan. The assignment extended into a two-year study that resulted in an astonishing array of work that included traditional journalistic coverage of the Afghan war and a profound study of fighting men in the multi-screen multimedia project “Sleeping Soldiers”, a fly-poster exhibition, the book “Infidel” and the feature documentary “Restrepo”. Hetherington died in 2011 aged 40 while covering the Libyan civil war. TIM HETHERINGTON: born Birkenhead UK December 5 1970, died Misrata, Libya April 20 2011. Graduated Oxford University (classics and English 1992), Cardiff University (photojournalism 1997). Published books Healing Sport (Thames and Hudson 2003, as part of group project Tales of a Globalizing World), Long Story Bit By Bit: Liberia Retold (Umbrage Editions 2009), Infidel (Chris Boot Ltd 2010). Film work included Violent Coast (assistant producer & cameraman 2004), Liberia: An Uncivil War (assistant producer & cameraman 2004), The Devil Came on Horseback (cameraman 2007), Unreported World – Nigeria: Fire in the Delta (producer and director 2006), Afghanistan, The Other War (ABC TV 2008), Sleeping Soldiers (director 2009), Restrepo (director 2010) and Diary (director 2010). Clients included The Big Issue London, The Independent London, The British Council, Human Rights Watch, Vanity Fair New York. Awards included a Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (2000-2004), a Hasselblad Foundation grant (2002), World Press Photo of the Year 2007, the Rory Peck Award for Features (2008), an Alfred I. duPont award (2009), Grand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival (2010), two Emmy awards for continuing coverage and editing (2011), and Academy Award nomination for Restrepo (2010). Investigator for United Nations Security Council's Liberia Sanctions Committee (2006). © Tim Hetherington | Magnum Photos