Tim Hetherington

Tim Hetherington
Hetherington in February 2011
Born	Timothy Alistair Telemachus Hetherington 5 December 1970 Birkenhead, England, UK
Died	20 April 2011(2011-04-20) (aged 40) Misrata, Libya
Cause of death	Ballistic trauma
Residence	New York City, New York, United States
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Alma mater	Lady Margaret Hall (University of Oxford) Cardiff University
Occupation	Photojournalist
Years active	1996–2011
Known for	Restrepo (2010)
Partner(s)	Idil Ibrahim (2010–2011)

Lady Margaret Hall (University of Oxford)

Timothy Alistair Telemachus "Tim" Hetherington (5 December 1970 – 20 April 2011) was a British photojournalist. He produced books, films and other work that "ranged from multi-screen installations, to fly-poster exhibitions, to handheld device downloads" and was a regular contributor to Vanity Fair.

He was best known for the documentary film Restrepo (2010), which he co-directed with Sebastian Junger. Restrepo won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at Sundance Film Festival 2010 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2011. Hetherington won various awards including the 2007 World Press Photo of the Year. He was killed by shrapnel from either a mortar shell or an RPG fired by Libyan forces while covering the 2011 Libyan Civil War.

Born to Alistair and Judith (née Gillett) Hetherington, Tim Hetherington was raised in Southport, Sefton, where he attended St Patrick's Catholic Primary School. Later he attended Stonyhurst College and read Classics and English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 1989. Shortly after graduation he received £5,000 from his grandmother's will, which enabled him to travel for two years in India, China and Tibet. That trip made him realize he "wanted to make images", so he "worked for three to four years, going to night school in photography before eventually going back to college." He then studied photojournalism under Daniel Meadows and Colin Jacobson in Cardiff in 1996.