The Tim Hetherington Collection

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Conflict Imagery Research Network launch:

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ARCHIVED EVENT AVAILABLE HERE

The Tim Hetherington Collection is now securely settled in its new home with the Imperial War Museums UK.  IWM in partnership with the University of Leeds School of Media & Communication is developing a research network to study issues relating to the archive and this inaugural event looks at Tim's work in conflict  with contributions from

Speakers

SUZANNAH BIERNOFF  “Flesh, stone, metal: the seductions of antiquity” | Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck

MAX HOUGHTON  “Restrepo: Locating the Self” | Senior Lecturer in Photography at London College of Communication

PAUL LOWE “Cats and Dogs: military representations of animals in combat” | Reader in Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, award-winning photographer

SAUMAVA MITRA “Revisiting Restrepo: the men and boys beyond the wire” | Assistant Professor at Dublin City University

AMRU SALAHUDDIEN “Individualism of the combatants” | Photojournalist covering the Middle East and Canada for international news agencies

The network’s principal investigator is Dr KATY PARRY (Associate Professor in Media and Communication), working with co-investigator, GREG BROCKETT (curator, Imperial War Museum).