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Sebastian Junger’s tribute to his late friend, a gifted war photographer with whom he co-directed the Oscar-nominated Restrepo , is more sincere obituary than searching doc.
It’s a portrait of the man rather than an investigation of the craft which took him to the combat zones of Afghanistan and ultimately took his life.
Junger knows photojournalists are “part of the machine”, but Hetherington sought the humanity amid the horror; war was the backdrop, never the subject.
Matt Glasby is a freelance film and TV journalist. You can find his work on Total Film - in print and online - as well as at publications like the Radio Times, Channel 4, DVD REview, Flicks, GQ, Hotdog, Little White Lies, and SFX, among others. He is also the author of several novels, including The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film and Britpop Cinema: From Trainspotting To This Is England.