Tim Hetherington, left, is helped in a building by a rebel in Misurata hours, in Libya, before being killed. Chris Hondros, right, Misurata mission this week. (AFP/Getty Images.) (Associated Press) reports of Misurata, Libya and Los Angeles-, barely two months ago combat photographer Tim Hetherington sent a tweet of the Academy Awards, where his Afghanistan war film "restrepo" was for the best documentary trophy.Non-"to the # Oscars with Josh Fox of @ gaslandmovie and Director of http://ow.ly/i/8Dl6 Wasteland," he asked, referring to two of his fellow nominees in the category. The tweet was accompanied by a photo of Hetherington, beaming in a tuxedo.
On Tuesday, Hetherington has sent a very different report of the shattered and besieged the Libyan city of Misurata: "bombardment by the forces of Qathafi blind." No sign of NATO. ?
These significantly dissimilar dispatches reflect both disparate but complementary Hetherington, 41, who was killed Wednesday in an explosion which seems to have been caused by mortar fire to Misurata. The town held the rebels in the West of the Libya was under siege for several weeks by forces loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi.
The mortally wounded even mortar explosion Chris Hondros of Getty Images, a veteran photographer combat whose work appeared on the cover of the edition of the Wednesday of the Los Angeles Times and appears in the edition of today as well.
Hondros, 41, has suffered a serious head injury in the blast and taken to hospital, where he died a few hours later.
Hondros has received several awards, including the highest distinction of photography of the war, Robert Capa 2005 Gold Medal. He was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his work in Liberia.
Two other photojournalists were injured in the explosion: Michael Brown, Corbis and Guy Martin of Panos Pictures Agency.
Doctors at the Hospital of Misurata Hikma said seven rebel fighters and a Ukrainian doctor also were killed Wednesday in the bombing, and 120 people were injured.
Hondros took photographs in Misurata Wednesday morning under the protection of a rebel militia commanded by a hunter named Salahidin. His photos capture the militia in the action she tried emptying loyal snipers to Kadafi from their hiding places.
After the transmission of images to his employers to Getty Images, he returned to the line of front with Salahidin and his men in the afternoon.
Hetherington and Hondros were part of a group of six photographers who made their way up to a dangerous band of Tripoli Street, a front line where Kadafi snipers hide in buildings of the city held the rebels.
At some point, at some of the photographers has broken with Salahidin for a more secure position, less said Guillermo Cervera, a free-lance photographer who was part of the group. They were hit by shrapnel from a mortar shell.
"We were trying to go to a safe place." It was too quiet. "He considered dangerous," said Cervera, who was a few meters more below at the time of the explosion. "I heard the sound of an explosion, and everyone was on the ground."
Rebels have photographers at the Hikma hospital.
Hetherington was pallid and bleeding from a leg bad injury, and he also was hit in the head, Cervera said.
Through his photographs, which sometimes overlapped the line between journalism and fine art photography, Hetherington has sought the perceptual gap between the chaotic events in developing countries and the most privileged worlds of Western readers. Its projects had included facilities multi-screen and downloads for the portable device.
Born in Liverpool, England, he studied literature at Oxford University and later returned to College to study photography, according to a biography on its website.
A photographer contributing to Vanity Fair, he lived for eight years in West Africa before making his first travels to Afghanistan, a few years ago.
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