Remembering Chris Hondros, Part III: Tal Afar

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Remembering Chris Hondros, Part III: Tal Afar – Reading The Pictures

Edward Wong of the New York Times shares the story of Chris Hondros’s photographs documenting the accidental killing of Iraqi civilians by American troops in Iraq.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2011/04/remembering-chris-hondros-part-iii/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Bagnewsnotes+(BAGnewsNotes)

I didn’t know Chris well, but I saw him on a few occasions in Iraq. He was a calm, cheerful presence in the middle of a war that was growing more chaotic by the day. After I heard the awful news of his death in Libya last week, I remembered interviewing him in Baghdad about what he saw one winter night in 2005: the accidental shooting of an Iraqi family by American soldiers in Tal Afar. My notebook with the entire interview is in the U.S., but I found a memo on my computer that I had typed up afterwards. There are few better examples of his professionalism and compassion than the photos he shot that night. Chris was a strong advocate for documenting the impact of war on civilians. This is an edited version of the memo.

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