‘Restrepo’ Documentarian Tim Hetherington Killed Covering Libyan Frontlines

Earlier today photographer Andre Liohn reported via Facebook that Tim Hetherington, a British journalist and co-director of Restrepo, has been killed along with fellow Pulitzer Prize nominated photographer Chris Hondros in Mirata, Libya, during a conflict between Muammar Gaddafi’s soldiers and Libyan rebel forces. The post has since been removed from Facebook for unknown reasons, but the BBC has since confirmed the news. Hetherington’s last Tweet reads, “In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO.”

Restrepo won the Grand Jury Award at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, and was also nominated for Best Documentary at the 2011 Academy Awards. The film chronicles Hetherington and co-director Sebastian Junger’s fifteen months spent with a platoon of soldiers imbedded in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan as they man the Restrepo Observation Post.