Storyteller: photography by Tim Hetherington – in pictures

The Imperial War Museum is to open its first exhibition dedicated to work of the multi-award-winning conflict photographer Tim Hetherington, who died 13 years ago on assignment covering the Libyan civil war

A young rebel fighter and hand grenade during the civil war in Liberia, 2003.

Soldiers from the United States Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade during a 15-month deployment in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, June 2008.

A trader brings cassava leaves to the central market area of Tubmanberg, Liberia, May 2003.

Hetherington at work during the Libyan Revolution in Misrata, Libya.

A member of the AA (anti-aircraft) brigade exchanges a brief word with his girlfriend during heavy fighting in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, in 2003.

Members of the Millennium Stars pray before the start of a practice football match in Monrovia, Liberia. Many young men in Liberia are drawn to the sport. Despite the social breakdown that took place during the war, football has always remained an important way to bring young people together. In 1999, a football team called the Millennium Stars, comprised predominantly of ex-combatants, travelled from Liberia to the UK.

‘Doc’ Kelso sleeping. Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, July 2008.

An amputee straps on a prosthetic limb before taking to the field for a friendly football match at a war veterans’ camp situated on the outskirts of Luanda, Angola, June 2002.

A casualty from an ambush lies in the back of a truck technical during the push on the capital by the rebel LURD force.

An anti-Gaddafi combatant during the Libyan civil war, April 2011.

A self-portrait of Tim Hetherington taken in Libya, April 2011.

Source: The Guardian

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