Tim Hetherington
Tim Hetherington
Timothy Alistair Telemachus "Tim" Hetherington 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth5 December 1970
construct whatever
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.
games landscape dramatic
Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.
art world way
I have a set of images that go around the world in an art gallery installation. Each of them have different audiences, and they kind of each elucidate the subject in a slightly different way, and they ping off of each other.
moving media ideas
It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.
military presses
The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.
independent support needs
Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy, so you can enlist that support group and get as much juice out of your film as possible. That's just practically, financially, what you need to do.
focus way example
The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.
mean sacrifice brotherhood
Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.
ideas people possibility
I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.
default information trying
We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions.
amazing finally hear iraq medal soldier wars
It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
happening hidden husbands quite understand war wives
With soldiers, their wives are so fundamental in their relationships, and yet there's this kind of other war happening back in the States, where wives of soldiers don't quite understand what their husbands have been through, because their husbands won't really talk about it, and that's really the hidden war.
I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.
countries grew happening poorest richest understanding worlds
Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.