A SECOND PHOTOGRAPHER has died in Libya following an attack in the city of Misrata which already claimed the life of Oscar-nominated Tim Hetherington.
Hetherington was confirmed to have died in a rocket-propelled grenade attack yesterday. His colleague US born Chris Hondros has now also died after he had been seriously injured in the attack which left him in a coma.
Two other journalists, Guy Martin and Michael Christopher Brown were also injured in the attack, Reuters reports.
British-born Martin had been working with Panos Pictures agency and was hit by shrapnel. He is being treated at a hospital in the city although his condition is not yet stable according The New York Times.
New York-based photographer Brown was also treated for shrapnel injuries which were non-life threatening.
The family of Hertherington, whose direction on the film Restrepo earned him an Oscar nomination, said that “he will be forever missed” in a statement released to Vanity Fair, the magazine to which he contributed.
Liverpool-born Hetherington has been mourned by colleagues worldwide with the executive director of Human Rights Watch saying that this was “a devastating loss to many of us personally.”
Hondros, was a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist who was born and based in New York City where he worked for Getty Images.
He had covered conflicts including wars in Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq, and Liberia.
On his Twitter account, he described himself as a “conflict photographer and essayist”.
He had tweeted from Tahrir Square in Cairo in March about the expectations of the Egyptian people as they protested against the now ousted president.
The Washington Post has published a collection of his photography.
MSNBC has published a video of Hondros in which he talks about his motivation for doing his work over some of his most powerful images.
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