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Tim Hetherington 1970-2011 was one of the worlds most distinguished and dedicated photojournalists, whose career was tragically cut short when he died in a mortar blast while covering the Libyan Civil War. Tim won many awards for his war reporting, and was nominated for an Academy Award for the critically acclaimed documentary, Restrepo. Hetheringtons dedication to his career led him time after time into war zones, and unlike some other journalists, he did not pack up after the story had broken.In Here I Am, journalist and freelance writer Alan Huffman tells Hetheringtons life story, and through it analyzes what it means to be a war reporter in the twenty-first century. Huffman recounts Hetheringtons life from his first interests in photography, through his critical role in reporting the Liberian Civil War, to his tragic death in Libya.
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Huffman's newest book (Grove-Atlantic in March 2013) is Here I Am, the story of war photographer Tim Hetherington, who covered conflicts from the West African nation of Liberia to Sierra Leone, Darfur, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Libya. Hetherington, whose artistic eye and focus on revealing the lives of his subjects set him apart from other conflict photographers, was nominated for an Academy Award (with codirector Sebastian Junger) for the documentary film Restrepo. He was killed in Libya, alongside photographer Chris Hondros, on April 20, 2011, while covering that nation's revolution.
