Anton Hammerl was a photojournalist. He was also my dear friend. A few days after he arrived in Libya in 2011 to document the country’s civil war, he was forcefully abducted with three other journalists by government militia loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
He was captured on the front line near the city of Brega. When his colleagues were finally set free two months later, we discovered that he had been shot on the day of his capture. His body was left in the desert; his mortal remains are missing to this day.
