Photographers bring their wars to Bronx

NEW YORK - After dangerous, dusty assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan, photographer Michael Kamber has chosen a tough area of New York City as the new backdrop for his interest in war.

The award-winning journalist recently opened a gallery in the Bronx, the first in the borough, and he hopes that his gesture will both help photographers and build bridges with a neighborhood that, while not at war, certainly knows the harder side of life.

The Bronx Documentary Center's inaugural exhibition focused on images by Tim Hetherington, a British photographer who was killed in April, along with his colleague Chris Hondros, while working in the rebel Libyan town of Misrata.