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    Two exceptional photojournalists are killed by rockets in Misrata

    By we are stardust on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 11:20pm |

    "It's an exceptionally sad day for the photojournalism community. Tim Hetherington, a British photojournalist and co-director of the documentary "Restrepo," and Chris Hondros, an American photojournalist with Getty Images, were killed by a rocket propelled grenade in Misrata. Two other photojournalists, Guy Martin and Michael Christopher Brown, were also injured, but less severely."

      

    Chris Hondros / Getty Images

    Above: Samar Hassan screams after her parents were killed by U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division in a shooting January 18, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq. The troops fired on the Hassan family car when it unwittingly approached them during a dusk patrol in the tense northern Iraqi town. Parents Hussein and Camila Hassan were killed instantly, and a son Racan, 11, was seriously wounded in the abdomen. Racan, who lost the use of his legs, was treated later in the U.S. 

    Chris Hondros/Getty Imaages

    A Palestinian Christian girl watches a church ceremony in the Grotto of Church of the Nativity. The church was closed for five weeks during a standoff between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants that had sought refuge inside.

    Godspeed, Tim, Chris.  Heal quickly, Christopher and Guy.

    Chris Hondro's website; photos galore.  Good ones.

    Comments

    I saw this yesterday.  What a terrible waste.  Thanks for bringing this here, Stardust.  The photos are exceptional and the news is heartbreaking.


    by Ramona on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 9:22am

    The news I'd seem was all about Hetherington, Ramona.  When I finally saw Hondros' photo of Samar Hassan last night, I was spellbound, and went looking for more.  What a loss; men who wanted to let us see the results and process of war.  There is some strange alchemy a great phographer can capture or create that makes me appreciate it as art, or changing how we understand something in a new way.  His portfolio does that, IMO.

    I thought Hetherington was only motion pictures, and I haven't taken the time to see if he has still shots, too. 

    Heartbreaking.  Yep.  Too, too much heartbreaking news any more, isn't there?  And that's setting aside the bucketloads of crazy news. which is heart-breaking in its own way.


    by we are stardust on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 9:57am

    It's all nuts.  No sane refuges anymore.  I'm immersed and obsessed with it all, because, funnily, pathetically, I only feel sane when I'm fighting against the madness with all my might.


    by Ramona on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 8:35pm

    Yes; or for me, immersing myself in music or the little gardens and birrrrrds.  Some of that makes sense.


    by we are stardust on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 8:48pm