David Schonauer: Hetherington, Hondros, and the Risky History of the War Photographer

To the list of photographers who have died while covering war and conflict, we must now add the names of Tim Hetherington Loading... and Chris Hondros Loading... , killed in Misurata, Libya on Wednesday. They join the likes of Ken Oosterbroek Loading... , a member of the so-called Bang Bang Club of photojournalists immortalized now in a new movie. Oosterbroek was killed in 1994 while covering the violence in South Africa during t...
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To the list of photographers who have died while covering war and conflict, we must now add the names of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, killed in Misurata, Libya on Wednesday. They join the likes of Ken Oosterbroek, a member of the so-called Bang Bang Club of photojournalists immortalized now in a new movie.

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