Overview participating exhibitions
Multivocal Histories
2009
Multivocal Histories
Tim Hetherington
SLEEPING SOLDIERS (Afghanistan, 2009)
As part of a long-running project the British photographer Tim Hetherington followed an American platoon in a remote valley in Afghanistan. While he was with them he built up a more intimate bond with the soldiers than most journalists are privileged to. From this unique position, and making use of both photography and moving images, together with editor Magali Charrier Hetherington created an installation that makes the confusion and stress of war, but also the comradeship among soldiers palpable. By arranging documentary material according to the aesthetic of fiction Hetherington has been able to convincingly evoke the stress of war for the viewer.
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SLEEPING SOLDIERS (Afghanistan, 2009)
As part of a long-running project the British photographer Tim Hetherington followed an American platoon in a remote valley in Afghanistan. While he was with them he built up a more intimate bond with the soldiers than most journalists are privileged to. From this unique position, and making use of both photography and moving images, together with editor Magali Charrier Hetherington created an installation that makes the confusion and stress of war, but also the comradeship among soldiers palpable. By arranging documentary material according to the aesthetic of fiction Hetherington has been able to convincingly evoke the stress of war for the viewer.
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SLEEPING SOLDIERS (Afghanistan, 2009)
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SLEEPING SOLDIERS (Afghanistan, 2009)
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SLEEPING SOLDIERS (Afghanistan, 2009)
Biography
Sleeping Soldiers (2009)
As part of a long-running project the British photographer Tim Hetherington followed an American platoon in a remote valley in Afghanistan. While he was with them he built up a more intimate bond with the soldiers than most journalists are privileged to. From this unique position, and making use of both photography and moving images, together with editor Magali Charrier Hetherington created an installation that makes the confusion and stress of war, but also the comradeship among soldiers palpable. By arranging documentary material according to the aesthetic of fiction Hetherington has been able to convincingly evoke the stress of war for the viewer.
Tim Hetherington (Great Britain), 1970) is a photographer and filmmaker, specialising in long-term narrative documentary projects. He spent eight years in West Africa, resulting in the book Liberia: Long Story Bit by Bit (2009). He won the 2007 World Press Photo award for a photograph he made in Afghanistan. Hetherington's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Der Spiegel and other journals. He lives in New York and is connected with the periodical Vanity Fair.
