Tim Hetherington was born in Liverpool, UK. He was based between New York an London, and worked as a contributing photographer for Vanity Fair magazine. In April 2011 he was killed in the besieged city of Misurata, Libya.His interest was in creating diverse forms of visual communication from long-term projects and his work has ranged from digital projections at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, to fly-poster exhibitions in Lagos, to feature-length documentary film including "Restrepo" which earned him an Oscar nomination.He spent eight years working and living in West Africa, four of them in Liberia. His initial project 'Healing Sport' was published in 'Tales of a Globalizing World' by Thames and Hudson (2003). In the 2003 Liberian civil war, along with a TV colleague, he was the only photographer to live behind rebel lines. The resultant film, 'Liberia: an uncivil war' was released in 2004. In 2006, he left image making to work on the Panel of Experts of the UN Security Council's Liberia Sanctions Committee. He returned to documentary a year later, and his book 'Long Story Bit By Bit: Liberia Retold' was published by Umbrage Editions in May 2009.Known for his long-term documentary work, he received an Alfred I. duPont award, four World Press prizes including the World Press Photo of the Year 2007, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.