Tim Hetherington

The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.

— Tim Hetherington

As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.

— Tim Hetherington

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm…

— Tim Hetherington

The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.

— Tim Hetherington

We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they…

— Tim Hetherington

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing.…

— Tim Hetherington

With soldiers, their wives are so fundamental in their relationships, and yet there's this kind of other war happening back in the…

— Tim Hetherington

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

— Tim Hetherington

Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy,…

— Tim Hetherington

I'm a documentary image maker, still and moving, because keeping the real world on the agenda is really important at a time…

— Tim Hetherington

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

— Tim Hetherington

I have a set of images that go around the world in an art gallery installation. Each of them have different audiences,…

— Tim Hetherington

I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

— Tim Hetherington

The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and…

— Tim Hetherington

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

— Tim Hetherington

Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that…

— Tim Hetherington

It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq…

— Tim Hetherington

Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the…

— Tim Hetherington