Photographer Chris Hondros: 1970–2011
ΕΝ ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΑ ΘΥΜΑΤΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΙΜΟΣΤΑΓΟΥΣ & ΠΑΡΑΦΡΟΝΟΣ ΘΗΡΙΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΛΙΒΥΗΣ (Ο ΟΠΟΙΟΣ ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΠΟΙΕΙ --ΜΕ ΦΟΝΙΚΗΝ ΛΥΣΣΑΝ-- ΤΑΣ ΔΙΕΘΝΩΣ ΑΠΗΓΟΡΕΥΜΕΝΑΣ ΒΟΜΒΑΣ ΔΙΑΣΠΟΡΑΣ) ΕΙΝΑΙ Ο ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΤΑΓΩΓΗΣ ΠΕΦΗΜΙΣΜΕΝΟΣ ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΟΣ (& ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΙΚΟΣ ΚΑΛΙΤΕΧΝΗΣ) ΚΡΙΣ ΧΟΝΔΡΟΣ!! ΚΑΤΑΘΕΤΟΜΕΝ ΝΟΗΤΟΝ ΚΛΑΔΟΝ ΦΟΙΝΙΚΟΣ ΕΠΙ ΤΟΥ ΜΝΗΜΕΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ!
In this publication you can see some best pictures of photographer Chris Hondros, who was killed on April 20, 2011 by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) in Misrata, Libya.
BIOGRAPHY FROM http://chrishondros.com/bio.htm
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.
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.
“Getty Images” photographer Chris Hondros (1970–2011) walks the ruins of a building August 21, 2006 in southern Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Getty Images)
An anti-Taliban solider trims his beard as a plume of smoke rises from a bomb blast on Al-Qaeda positions December 15, 2001 in the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A mujahadeen fighter braces himself against a fierce wind December 18, 2001 in the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Northern Allliance soldiers watch an American bomber drop bombs on Al Qaeda positions December 8, 2001 in the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Ismail Khader, a video cameraman for the Reuters News agency, recoils as a concussion grenade explodes at his feet April 5, 2002 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Israeli forces rebuffed the first journalistic excursion into downtown Ramallah in several days, even as U.S. negotiator Anthony Zinni was slated to meet with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at his Ramallah compound. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A Palestinian child, Ruba Mamoun, 4, stands outside her destroyed apartment building May 22, 2002 in Hebron, the West Bank. She now lives in a tent camp after the apartment building was destroyed by Israeli forces during a search for a Palestinian militant. Families who lived there say the building was demolished after the militant surrendered. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A Marine Arabic translator, of the Force Recon attachment to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, prepares to interrogate an Iraqi prisoner April 12, 2003 in central Iraq, north of Nasiriyah. The prisoner and two others were picked up fleeing from the Marines and trying to discard military uniforms and IDs. Force Recon is the Marines equivalent of Special Forces, Marines tasked with recon and other sensitive missions in small groups. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A Liberian internally displaced refugee child stands with a teddy bear at a sports stadium July 14, 2003 on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. Thousands of internally displaced refugees have been camping out at the stadium for weeks, fleeing the recent violence, and today's food distribution by the Red Cross was their first organized humanitarian aid. Residents and refugees in the capital alike wait for word on when international peacekeepers, especially from the U.S., will be coming to calm the war-torn country. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Relatives of refugees who had been killed minutes before by mortar shells grieve while they huddle in their makeshift refugee camp July 21, 2003 in at a small school in Monrovia, Liberia. Fighting in the Liberian capital intensified on July 21 as some 60 people were killed when mortars, believed to be fired by rebel troops, pounded the city. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A woman cries during a prayer for peace July 21, 2003 in Monrovia, Liberia. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A woman grieves over the body of a relative July 26, 2003 outside a church in Monrovia, Liberia. Sporadic shelling continued overnight in Monrovia, hitting a church that houses dozens of families and killing at least three. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Liberians flee the sound of fighting near Stockton Bridge carrying their belongings through a driving rainstorm July 27, 2003 in Monrovia, Liberia. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A government loyalist commander (L) orders a soldier to stop grieving a comrade who died of wounds suffered during a battle near front line positions August 2, 2003 in Monrovia, Liberia. Government forces succeeded in pushing back rebel forces from the edge of Monrovia after 11 days of fierce fighting for the Liberian capital. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A relative of a victim of the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks looks for a name on a flag with names of the victims at the World Trade Center site September 10, 2003 in New York City. A group called “Coalition of 9/11 Families” held a protest opposing the development within the area of the site. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
An interrogator (R) and an Arabic translator (L) with the 1-504th regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division from Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, nicknamed the “Red Devils”, question a frightened man as they look for infomation about militant activity during a raid November 26, 2003 in Nassar el al Salaam, Iraq. The man, almost too frightened to speak, was told, “Don't worry, we're not like Saddam's soldiers – we don't shoot our prisoners” by the Red Devil interrogator. The man was questioned and later released. The overnight raid netted two men suspected of militant activities against U.S. forces. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Iraqi children cry after their parents were killed when U.S. Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division out of Ft. Lewis, Washington, fired on their car when it failed to stop and came toward soldiers despite warning shots during a dusk patrol January 18, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq. The car held an Iraqi family of which the mother and father were killed. According to the U.S. Army, six children in the in the car survived, one with a non-life threatening flesh wound. U.S. military said they are is investigating the incident. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
The body of school child Lasana Harding lies on a dirt path about two minutes after he was killed my a mortar shell July 21, 2003 in Monrovia, Liberia. Fighting in the Liberian capital intensified on July 21 as some 60 people were killed when mortars, believed to be fired by rebel troops, pounded the city. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Democratic presidential canidate Senator John Kerry (D-MA) plays his guitar February 18, 2004 in flight enroute to Washington, DC. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A young child whose chest was injured by shrapnel from mortar shells gets medical attention in a crude medical tent in the Greystone refugee camp near the U.S. embassy July 21, 2003 in Monrovia, Liberia. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A child Liberian militia soldier loyal to the government walks away from firing while another taunts them on July 30, 2003 in Monrovia, Liberia. Sporadic clashes continue between government forces and rebel fighters in the fight for control of Monrovia. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Saddam Hussein sits in court during the continuation of the “Anfal” genocide trial on November 27, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. The trial resumes on charges of murdering Kurds during the 1987–1988 Anfal campaign. New defence lawyers are to be appointed after previous counsel announced a boycott in protest at government interference over the sacking of Judge Abdullah al-Amiri in September, for saying the former Iraqi leader was not a dictator. This follows Hussein's death sentence, given on November 5 for the murder of 148 Shia villagers in Dujail in 1982. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
An Iraqi boy looks out from a room where women and children are sequestered at Sgt.Trevor Warrior of the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment of the Second Infantry Division (the “Stryker Brigade”) December 2, 2006 in the tense Shulah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. Soldiers with the 1-23 were searching house-to-house for weapons or other insurgency-related items, and women and children of the house usually are placed in a separate room from men during these searches. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Spc. Reynolds Lara, a medic with the 28th Combat Support Hospital based in Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, sits with an Iraqi girl after she had been stabilized from shrapnel wounds when a family gathering was hit in a mortar attack in the Dora neighborhood February 27, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq. Wounded children and adults were rushed to the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, a military hospital that takes wounded Iraqi and U.S. forces alike. The boy had shrapnel wounds and a piece of shrapnel lodged in his skull but is expected to recover. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
US Army soldiers in the 1/501st of the 25th Infantry Division shield their eyes from the powerful rotor wash of a Chinook cargo helicopter as they are picked up from a mission October 15, 2009 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A child sits on a tank while a Egyptian soldiers stands by during a demonstration against President Hosni Mubarak in Tahrir Square on January 29, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets across Egypt in Cairo, Suez, and Alexandria to call for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Riot police and the Army have been sent into the streets to quell the protests, which so far have claimed at least 38 lives and left more than a two-thousand injured. The cabinet has formally resigned, but protesters are seeking a regime change with the resignation of Mubarak. The government has installed a curfew, blockaded access to the Giza pyramids with tanks and APC's and taken measures to secure museums from looters. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
A supporter of embattled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarek rides a camel through the melee during a clash between pro-Mubarak and anti-government protesters in Tahrir Square on February 2, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Yesterday President Mubarak announced that he would not run for another term in office, but would stay in power until elections later this year. Thousands of supporters of Egypt's long-time president and opponents of the regime clashed then today in Tahrir Square, throwing rocks and fighting with improvised weapons. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
An anti-government protester reacts before Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was to make a statement February 10, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made a statement in which he refused to step down, defying expectations that he was preparing to resign. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images
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