The award-winning journalist died when a mortar struck near where he was working. Hetherington co-directed the acclaimed film Restrepo. Other correspondents were also reportedly hit.

Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros tried to take photos to pierce our hearts and move us to care. It would honor them to pay attention not only to their pictures, but also to the brave, grieving and embattled people that they died to show us.

War photographer Tim Hetherington was killed in Misrata, Libya, a year ago this week. At a show of his photographs in Washington, D.C., one of his friends tells us what made Hetherington a different kind of photographer.