Chris Hondros (1970 - 2011)
Update: Chris Hondros
was killed while on assignment in Libya on April
20, 2011. The world has lost an amazingly gifted
photographer and an even greater human being.
RIP my good friend...you will forever be
remembered. Memorial services listed
here.
Chris Hondros (b. March 14, 1970) is an American
Pulitzer Prize-nominated phtotojournalist. Born
in New York City to immigrant Greek and German
parents, both survivors of World War II, he
moved to North Carolina as a child. After
studying English literature at North Carolina
State and taking his Master's degree at Ohio's
School of Visual Communications, Hondros
returned to New York to concentrate on
international reporting.
Hondros has covered most of the world's major
conflicts since the late 1990s, including wars
in Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Lebanon,
Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq, and
Liberia. His work has appeared on the covers of
magazines such as Newsweek and The Economist,
and on the front pages of most major American
newspapers, including The New York Times, the
Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.
Hondros has received dozens of awards, including
multiple honors from World Press Photo in
Amsterdam, the International Pictures of the
Year Competition, the Visa Pour L'Image in
France, and the John Faber award from the
Overseas Press Club. In 2004 Hondros was a
Nominated Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in
Spot News Photography for his work in Liberia,
and in 2006 he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal,
war photography's highest honor, for his work in
Iraq. He's also been named a 2007 "Hero of
Photography" by American Photo magazine, and was
a 2008 National Magazine Award finalist.
In addition to his photography, Hondros is a
frequent lecturer and essayist on issues of war,
and regularly writes for the Virginia Quarterly
Review, Editor and Publisher, The Digital
Journalist, and other publications. Hondros
and his work are frequently chronicled in the
general press, including profiles by Smithsonian
magazine, CNN, National Public Radio, The New
York Times, and Newsweek. He lives in New
York, where he is a senior staff photographer
for Getty Images, the international photo
agency.
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