The most important exhibition you'll see all year: Tim Hetherington at the Imperial War Museum

The most important exhibition you’ll see in London this year is not at your Tates or your White Cubes, but is located past the naval guns and spitfires and jeeps, deep within the Imperial War Museum.

Storyteller: Photography by Tim Hetherington is important because it showcases not simply a gifted war photographer, but an artist who was busy redefining what war photography was until his life was tragically cut short in 2011 at the age of 40.

Hetherington’s approach was not simply to drop into war zones and shoot the carnage. Instead, he was interested in the context of conflict.

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