The New York Times / News Photographer
Photojournalist Tim Hetherington, whose Oscar-nominated documentary “Restrepo” chronicled a U.S. Army unit’s battles in the Korangal Valley of Afghanistan, was killed while covering the fighting in Libya on Wednesday. Three others were wounded, two critically, according to C.J. Chivers of The New York Times. Chivers reported that Chris Hondros, working for Getty Images, “suffered a severe brain injury and was in extremely critical condition, according to a colleague who was with [him] at the triage center. He had been revived and was clinging to life in the evening, the colleague said.” (Donald Winslow, editor of News Photographer magazine, told me that early reports of Hondros’ death stemmed from the severity of his injuries and questions about whether he had been revived.) Guy Martin was also seriously injured; Michael Christopher Brown’s wounds were less severe. || Related: Hetherington’s last tweet and reflections on his work.
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