Diary (2010) from Tim Hetherington on Vimeo.
Diary is a short experimental documentary by photojournalist Tim Hetherington currently making its way around the festival circuit. Tim photographs conflict, most notably in Liberia and Afghanistan. He’s currently up for an academy award for his film Restrepo. (Which you should watch. It’s great too.)
Tim describes Diary as “a highly personal and experimental film that expresses the subjective experience of my work, and was made as an attempt to locate myself after ten years of reporting. It’s a kaleidoscope of images that link our western reality to the seemingly distant worlds we see in the media.”
The film is set in Liberia and Afghanistan.
I like taking photos, and I like chaos. But I could never be the kind of artist Tim is. I don’t like to photography conflict or disaster. It’s not that I don’t cope well in these environments – I do. But when it comes to actually snapping a photograph, I loose my capacity. I learned that in Haiti.
Anyway, Diary pushes the documentary form. Watch it. It’s great.
