4 Quotes & Sayings By Tim Hetherington

Tim was born in the U.S.A in New York City. His father was a journalist for NBC News and People Magazine. Tim's career began when he was just 16 years old, when he got his first job as an assistant on the set of Entertainment Tonight. He later worked for networks in Miami, Los Angeles, and San Diego before moving to New York in 2010 to pursue his dream of working with the photojournalist Christopher Morris Read more

Tim's work is widely published in many respected publications like Newsweek, National Geographic, Time, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire and GQ.

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As anyone who has experienced it will know, war is many contradictory things. There is brutality and heroism, comedy and tragedy, friendship, hate, love and boredom. War is absurd yet fundamental, despicable yet beguiling, unfair yet with its own strange logic. Rarely are people 'back home' exposed to these contradictions – society tends only to highlight those qualities it needs, to construct its own particular narrative. . Tim Hetherington
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The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now. Tim Hetherington
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Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else. Tim Hetherington