Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Oscar-nominated war photographer killed in Libya (AP)

MISRATA, Libya – An Oscar-nominated war artist and flick administrator was killed Wednesday in the besieged municipality of Misrata patch covering battles between rebels and African government forces. Three another Western photographers were wounded.

British-born Tim Hetherington, co-director of the movie "Restrepo" about U.S. soldiers on an settlement in Afghanistan, was killed exclusive the exclusive rebel-held municipality in western Libya, said his U.S.-based publicist, Johanna Ramos Boyer. The municipality has become under weeks of continual shelling by government troops.

Chris Hondros, a New York-based artist for Getty Images, was seriously injured and was on a inhalator at Hikma Hospital. Doctors told The Associated Press that his condition was critical.

The digit another photographers — Guy histrion and Michael Christopher Brown — were aerated for shrapnel wounds, doctors said.

Hetherington, 41, was appointed for an Academy Award for his 2010 movie flick "Restrepo." The flick was co-directed by Sebastian Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm."

"Restrepo" tells the story of the 2nd Platoon of Battle Company in the 173rd Airborne Combat Team on its deployment in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008. The denomination refers to the platoon outpost, named after a favourite soldier, Juan Restrepo, who was killed early in the fighting.

Hondros, 41, has covered offend zones since the New 1990s including Kosovo, Irak and Afghanistan, and his impact has appeared in field magazines and newspapers around the world. His awards allow World Press Photo honors and the parliamentarian Capa Gold Medal, digit of the maximal prizes in war photography.


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