Editor's comment: This video was sent to us by Axis of Logic columnist, Joanne Namerow. Upon sending the video, Joanne wrote:

"I forgot to send you this video. It's a video diary from Tim Hetherington, the director of the documentary "Restrepo". He was killed in Libya yesterday. It's a video that basically weaves together images of war in Africa and of the Western world and that to which we give importance. The video is raw and intimate, heartbreaking specially in light of his death. I would like to find a place for it in the website. I think you'll like it very much."

This video is not about polemics or political opinion. It's only about war. But I must introduce it with a single comment of my own. If anyone who sees this chaos and has a single thought that this is about people of color in other places, their affairs and think this is the way they choose to live - think again. These wars far from where most of us live, stem from people in our lands, our governments, our media, our countries' intrusions into their domestic affairs with interest in their natural resources and the cheap labor of the victims you are about to see. - LMB

From Tim Hetherington*

August 19, 2010

Diary (2010) from Tim Hetherington on Vimeo.

(Written before his death) Tim Hetherington was born in Liverpool, UK. He studied literature at Oxford University and later returned to college to study photojournalism. He lives in New York and is a contributing photographer for Vanity Fair magazine.

His interest lies in creating diverse forms of visual communication and his work has ranged from multi-screen installations, to fly-poster exhibitions, to handheld device downloads. Known for his long-term documentary work, Tim lived and worked in West Africa for eight years and has reported on social and political issues worldwide.

His project Healing Sport was published by Thames and Hudson as part of group project Tales of a Globalizing World (Thames & Hudson 2003). Long Story Bit By Bit:Liberia Retold (Umbrage Editions 2009) narrates recent Liberian history by drawing on images and interviews made over a five year period. A new book, Infidel (Chris Boot Ltd 2010), about a group of US soldiers in Afghanistan, continues the examination of young men and conflict.

As a film maker, he has worked as both a cameraman and director/producer. He was a cameraman on Liberia: an Uncivil War (2004) and The Devil Came on Horseback (2007), and his directorial debut film Restrepo about a platoon of soldiers in Afghanistan, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. His most recent film Diary is a highly personal experimental short currently playing at film festivals.

He is the recipient of numerous awards including a Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (2000-4), a Hasselblad Foundation grant (2002), four World Press Photo prizes including the World Press Photo of the Year 2007, the Rory Peck Award for Features (2008), and an Alfred I. duPont award (2009).

Timothy (Tim) Hetherington (5 December 1970 – 20 April 2011) was a British-American photojournalist. He was best known for his documentary film Restrepo, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2011. Hetherington was killed on 20 April 2011 while covering the front lines in the besieged city of Misrata, Libya. There appears to be uncertainty whether he was killed by a mortar shell or an RPG round. The same attack also killed photographer Chris Hondros and gravely wounded photographer Guy Martin. A source said that the group was travelling with rebel fighters. Hetherington tweeted the previous day, "In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO". Hetherington is survived by his mother, father, sister, brother and three nieces and nephews. - Wikipedia.

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