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Two of the world's most acclaimed war photographers, both based in Brooklyn, were killed in Libya on April 20. Chris Hondros, (l.), a senior correspondent for Getty images and his buddy Tim Hetherington, (r.), who co-directed this year's Oscar-nominated Afghanistan documentary 'Restrepo,' were in Misrata when Col. Moammar Khadafy's forces shelled the city. 'The artistic and journalistic community has lost two shining stars,' said Micah Garen, a New York-based war documentary filmmaker who knew them both. Hondros, 41, was set to marry his fiance Chistina Piaiain August, and Hetherington, 40, had intended to start a family with girlfriend Idil Ibrahim.