Tim Hetherington: Sleeping Soldiers lecture

The Tim Hetherington exhibit has closed, but the lecture still lives in my head. The lecture took place at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. on May 7, 2012. It was a last minute find through a friend, and it was a closed event that required the attendee to be on a list. The lecture panel took place in the school's main lecture hall. The lecture panel consisted of Hetherington's three friends and colleagues, who exhibited private lectures, home movies, and never before seen footage of Hetherington's travels to Libya. The lecture also exhibited selected works from his current exhibition at the museum, "Sleeping Soldiers". It showcased the effects of war on soldiers currently in the Middle East, and how it effects them psychologically. It breaks down the walls that are placed due to symptoms, such as post traumatic stress disorder. His photos also exhibit the civilians, and the effects of war on children. The discussion panel also spoke of Hetherington as a friend; it was almost as if this were a eulogy at his funeral. His friends spoke of how Hetherington died doing what he loved; he was killed in Libya while shooting the civil war. They talked about how he would not have it any other way, and dying in a fashion that is not as dramatic as his would not have justified his life and his work. He spent most of his early life traveling around the U.K. and made it his life's mission to discover foreign places and people. In a sense it was his way of discovering himself.
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