Dino Mahtani/CPJ Guest Blogger
Dino Mahtani was a correspondent in West and Central Africa between 2003 and 2007. He is one of Tim's many friends.
![Hetherington at the opening night of the World Press Photo Award exhibition in Zurich, Switzerland, on May 7, 2008. (AP/Keystone/Eddy Risch)](https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/hetherington.ap_.jpg?w=400&h=257&crop=1)
Tim Hetherington: A star inexorably, humbly rising
I first met Tim Hetherington in Monrovia in 2005, in the run-up to Liberia’s then historic elections, which officially drew the line under the country’s 14-year civil war. Tim had already reported from Liberia in the chaotic final stages of that war in 2003, marching for days on end through dense and unforgiving tropical bush…