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…photography is great at representing the hardware of the war machine,” he told his good friend and writer Stephen Mayes, a month before he died. “But the truth is that the war machine is the software, as much as the hardware. The software runs it, and the software is young men. I’m not so young anymore. But I get it. That’s really what my work is about…

the very last twelve, poignant pictures shot by british war photographer ‘tim hetherington’ just before he was killed whilst working in libya last april, have been published by newsweek this week…