Tag: Chris Hondros

  • only the good die young..

    only the good die young..

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    only the good die young.. I am totally not up to this…Writing obits is not what I do…This will not be my best of anything. Yet, it is all I can do at the moment. I found out yesterday, at exactly this time by te… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2011/04/only-the-good-die-young/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+burnmag I found out yesterday, at exactly…

  • Parting Glance: Chris Hondros

    Parting Glance: Chris Hondros

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    Parting Glance: Chris Hondros Chris Hondros of Getty Images had an ability to draw viewers deeply into his images. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/parting-glance-chris-hondros/ Conjure a combat photographer in your mind’s eye — fatigues, a whiskey flask and a fondness for rude pastimes. Now discard the cliché and conjure Chris Hondros of Getty Images instead. A…

  • Chris Hondros Dies of Injuries in Libya

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    He won numerous photojournalism awards, including the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award in 2006, and multiple awards from the World Press Photos and Pictures of the Year International Competition. Link: Chris Hondros Dies of Injuries in Libya

  • Tim Hetherington, Chris Hondros Killed In Libya

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    A contributing photographer for Vanity Fair, Hetherington died shortly after arriving at hospital in Misrata. Hondros clung to life for several hours in a coma before he died from what Italian doctors said was an irreversible brain trauma. Reports are Hondros was revived at least two times, but Getty Images has now confirmed his death…

  • Chris Hondros Killed in Libya

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    Chris Hondros Killed in Libya | PDNPulse Award-winning photographer Chris Hondros has died of injuries he sustained in Misrata, Libya earlier today, his agency, Getty Images, has confirmed. Getty released the following statement: “Getty Images is deeply saddened to confirm the death of Staff Pho via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/04/chris-hondros-killed-in-libya.html Award-winning photographer Chris Hondros has died of…

  • Photojournalist killed, others severely injured in Libya

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    Photojournalist Tim Hetherington has been killed in a mortar attack in Misurata, Libya, whil

  • Photojournalist Tim Hetherington killed in Libya, 3 others injured

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    Reports are just coming in confirming the deaths of photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hond

  • Chris Hondros on the Madness in Tahrir Square — BagNews

    Chris Hondros on the Madness in Tahrir Square — BagNews

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    Chris Hondros on the Madness in Tahrir Square – Reading The Pictures The only way I can describe the situation today is that it was totally old school, just people with rocks, sticks and fists. It felt almost historical. It was probably more like how the American Revolution was fought. Or a fight in 683…

  • Baghdad in D Minor – NYTimes.com

    Baghdad in D Minor – NYTimes.com

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    Baghdad in D Minor Chris Hondros is presenting a more nuanced view of Iraq and Afghanistan. Nuanced, and musical. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/baghdad-in-d-minor/ As eight musicians perform works by Bach on Wednesday at John Jay College, there will be a ninth man in the shadows, tapping away at a keyboard, keeping time. That man will…

  • PDNPulse: Haiti Aftermath Coverage: A Live Chat

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    Photographers Chris Hondros, Timothy Fadek and Willie Davis will share images they shot in the first week after the Haitian earthquake and discuss press coverage of the disaster during a live chat hosted by BagNewsNotes, the politics and photography blog, this Sunday from 3 to 4:30pm EST. Link: PDNPulse: Haiti Aftermath Coverage: A Live Chat

  • Visions of the Decade: One Night in Tal Afar, 2005 | PDN Photo of the Day

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    Chris Hondros: When I give talks or lectures people often ask me my personal feelings about war, usually I dodge the question.  Sometimes I say that I don’t expect my pictures to stop wars, but rather I hope they help citizens to understand what going to war means.  On that level at least I think…

  • Photographer describes wars in pictures – News

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    : Chris Hondros has seen the world at war first hand – and so has his camera lens. Working for Getty images as a war photographer for almost a decade, he has captured militiamen crying out in battle in the Second Liberian Civil War, American soldiers on raids in Iraq and children in the arms…

  • Heroes of Photography

    Heroes of Photography

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    (Thanks to A Photo A Day for pointing this out to me.) From American Photo, “a tribute to ten photographers who inspire us”: Not one of the photographers featured on the following pages wanted to be called a hero. We sympathize: The word is immodest and certainly overused these days. Nonetheless, we can’t help but…