
Tim Heatherington, Co-director of the Oscar nominated "Restrepo" has been killed today in Libya. Two other photographers were also tragically killed and two wounded on Wednesday whilst covering the mounting conflict in Misurata, Libya's third-largest city.
Spanish photographer Guillermo Cervera said the group had been trying to leave Tripoli street when they came under fire.
"It was quiet and we were trying to get away and then a mortar landed and we heard explosions," he said.
His British family issued a statement saying they had learned of his death with great sadness and that he would be remembered "for his amazing images and his Academy Award nominated documentary 'Restrepo.'"
This serves as a reminder of the dangerous risks that a documentarian can take in bringing us the real story. "Restrepo" won such high acclaim due to its gritty reality and ground breaking viewpoint of the soldiers at war. Heatherington spent a total of ten months living with a platoon of soldiers at a remote outpost in Afghanistan in the build up and filming of Restrepo.
His last tweet reads :
In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO.