Family, colleagues bid farewell to Anton Hammerl

Hammerl changed after he was drafted into the South African military and deployed to the front line of the Apartheid government's war with Angola, long-time friend Ziemek Pater told a memorial service on Saturday.

That experience may explain, in part, why he left his young children behind and travelled to the front lines of the war in Libya, to photograph the conflict that still rages there.

Some of those images, shown at the service, are extraordinary; a man at prayer as a rocket is launched in the background, rebels with cobbled-together equipment getting ready to move towards the front, the detritus of war strewn about a desert landscape.

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