TIM HETHERINGTON AND CHRIS HONDROS @ Bronx Documentary Center

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TIM HETHERINGTON AND CHRIS HONDROS @ Bronx Documentary Center

September 28th, 2018 by fstop

July 20, 2003: Joseph Duo, a Liberian militia commander loyal to the government, exults after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at rebel forces at a key strategic bridge in Monrovia. © Chris Hondros / Getty Images

TIM HETHERINGTON AND CHRIS HONDROS: WAR AND PEACE IN LIBERIA
October 26th – December 16th, 2018

“Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros’ powerful photographs played an important role in moving the world to action and ultimately bringing the Second Liberian Civil War (1999-2003) to an end.

Trapped with Liberian dictator Charles Taylor’s forces in besieged Monrovia in the summer of 2003, Chris braved artillery and rocket fire to send frontline pictures of women and children being killed by the hundreds. His photos ran on front pages around the world and provoked outrage at a brutal war whose victims were almost entirely non-combatants.
Tim Hetherington, embedded with the LURD rebels in the same period, provided the documentation of the rebels shelling civilians. Even the ruthless Charles Taylor considered him a threat and sent assassination squads to kill the British photojournalist. Tim barely escaped, only to return and live in Liberia following the conflict. His haunting book, Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold, has become a standard text of the Liberian Wars.”

Bronx Documentary Center–St Mary’s Annex, 364 E. 151st Street, Bronx

Location: Bronx, New York, United States Type: Exhibition

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