Category: Obituaries

Journalists Killed in Libya, News Breaks on Facebook

Journalists Killed in Libya, News Breaks on Facebook

When the first Western photojournalists covering the conflict in Libya were killed Wednesday, the world found out about it through Facebook and Twitter. Now the Facebook page of one of the photographers has become a defacto memorial for the online communi

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/04/journalists-killed-in-libya-news-breaks-on-facebook/

When the first Western photojournalists covering the conflict in Libya were killed Wednesday, the world found out about it through Facebook and Twitter. Now the Facebook page of one of the photographers has become a defacto memorial for the online community to grieve his death and honor his life.

April 21, 2011
Remember Chris Hondros

If you ever met Chris, the memory couldn’t help but stay with you. He was that kind of person.

Link: Remember Chris Hondros – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis

April 21, 2011
In Memory of Chris Hondros

All the war photographers I’ve ever met had that weird light about them. They are God’s chosen ones- His angels designated to be the bearers of bad news and images of hell on earth. What kind of maniac chooses to enter a battle unarmed? I don’t believe they choose to do it. I believe they are chosen.

Link: In Memory of Chris Hondros – The Golden Hour

April 21, 2011
In Memoriam | Tim Hetherington 1970-2011 Chris Hondros 1970-2011

In Memoriam | Tim Hetherington 1970-2011 Chris Hondros 1970-2011

Editor’s note: This post has been updated most recently on 1 May 2011. All the link additions can be found at the bottom of the post. The world lost Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in Liby…

via P H O T O J O U R N A L I S M L I N K S: http://photojournalismlinks.com/2011/04/21/in-memoriam-tim-hetherington-1970-2011-chris-hondros-1970-2011/

I would like to dedicate this post to the memory of the two men and to their friends and family. My thoughts are with them at this very sad time. I can only imagine the pain felt by those who knew Tim and Chris personally. I hope friends and family can find some solace in the fact that neither of them lived their lives in vain. Not only did both Hetherington and Hondros spend most of their careers highlighting important issues that would have otherwise been ignored or overlooked by the general public in countries such the UK and US, but they also practiced their craft at the very top tier of our industry to a very high standard and they were setting a mark towards which the rest of us should always strive for. Tim and Chris will be greatly missed.

April 21, 2011
Hetherington and Hondros, In Memoriam

I first met Chris while I was a sports intern at Getty last October. On the day I met him I was meeting with news editors, showing them my book. Hondros tried to quietly slipped through the office’s glass doors, but his presence was immediately known. As he entered, Sandy, the editor I was working with, excitedly said, “Look! That’s Chris Hondros, have you met him? He’s the nicest guy, just got back from Afghanistan.”

Link: Hetherington and Hondros, In Memoriam | Andrew Burton

April 21, 2011
RIP Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros

It is a terrible day for photography as we have lost two of our own.

Link: RIP Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter

April 21, 2011
Chris Hondros in Memoriam

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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/04/21/chris-hondros-in-memoriam/#1

We were meant to be flying into Baghdad, and the flight was delayed over and over again by sandstorms. To kill time, Chris and I made a deal: He’d explain baseball to be, and I’d help him understand cricket. When he was about halfway through his disquisition on America’s favorite sport, another passenger chimed in to question his interpretation of some arcane rule. (At least, it seemed arcane to me.) Then another passenger interrupted, with a variation of his own. Pretty soon, half the plane was consumed in a heated discussion on the finer details of baseball rules.

April 21, 2011
only the good die young..

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…

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I found out yesterday, at exactly this time by text message while driving in a blinding rainstorm, that my friend and next door neighbor Tim Hetherington had been killed in Libya along with colleague Chris Hondros. Mike Brown , who lives just upstairs and featured here with his Libya work was thankfully spared…So, two men who hang with me at home, stop by for a beer from time to time, were caught in the same mortar attack and one of them gone forever. I did not know Chris Hondros, but was an admirer of his work. I write here only of my friend Tim.

April 21, 2011
Parting Glance: Chris Hondros

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 tweed blazer with elbow patches. A taste for martinis. A love of Mahler. And a passion for chess.

April 21, 2011
Chris Hondros Dies of Injuries in Libya

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

April 21, 2011
Tim Hetherington, Chris Hondros Killed In Libya

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 at Hikma Hospital after rumors of his passing circulated in the States for several hours.

Link: Tim Hetherington, Chris Hondros Killed In Libya

April 21, 2011
Parting Glance: Tim Hetherington

Parting Glance: Tim Hetherington

Tim Hetherington was a great photographer. That was just the starting point.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/parting-glance-tim-hetherington/

To call Tim Hetherington a great photographer would be a mistake. That’s not how he saw it.

April 20, 2011
Chris Hondros Killed in Libya

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 injuries he sustained in Misrata, Libya earlier today, his agency, Getty Images, has confirmed.

April 20, 2011
Tim Hetherington in Memoriam

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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/04/20/tim-hetherington-in-memoriam/

Today, the devastating news arrived that Tim Hetherington had been killed in Misratah, Libya. He was many things: a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker, an artist and friend. He recently won popular acclaim after the documentary Restrepo, which he directed, was nominated for an Oscar. Tim was always trying to pull together the bits and pieces of all the news that was going on around him, to figure out how to follow them through to tell the whole story. He did that with war and, more specifically, with the men who go to war.

April 20, 2011
R.I.P. TIM HETHERINGTON

Tim’s final Twitter post sheds a stark light on the current state of Libya:
“In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO.”

Link: R.I.P. TIM HETHERINGTON – Viceland Today

April 20, 2011
Photojournalist killed, others severely injured in Libya

Chris Hondros never shied away from the front line having covered the world’s major conflicts throughout his distinguished career and his work in Libya was no exception. We are working to support his family and his fiancée as they receive this difficult news, and are preparing to bring Chris back to his family and friends in the United States. He will be sorely missed

Link: Two photojournalists killed, others severely injured in Libya – British Journal of Photography

April 20, 2011
Tim Hetherington Killed In Libya, Others Injured

Blogging Images: Photojournalism and Public Commentary

Northwestern University in Evanston, IL is to host the conference ‘Blogging Images: Photojournalism and Public Commentary’ on Saturday, April 30th. Robert Hariman explains why here: &#8…

via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/blogging-images-photojournalism-and-public-commentary/

Northwestern University in Evanston, IL is to host the conference ‘Blogging Images: Photojournalism and Public Commentary’ on Saturday, April 30th

April 20, 2011
Photojournalist Tim Hetherington killed in Libya, 3 others injured

Our thoughts go out to the families of Hetherington and Hondros and other journalists in danger in Libya and elsewhere.

Link: Photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros killed in Libya | dvafoto

April 20, 2011
Andre Liohn reports that Tim Hetherington has been killed in Libya, Hondros and 2 others injured

You usually wait for two sources on a story like this but I know Andre. Terrible.

April 20, 2011
R.I.P. Miroslav Tichý

Calling Tichý a recluse would be a drastic understatement. He was a notoriously private man, much to the chagrin of gallery owners in the mid-aughts whom he spurned by not attending his first solo exhibitions. So we were ecstatic when, last November, we made arrangements with his neighbor and caretaker, Mrs. Hebnarova, to stop by for a chat.

Link: R.I.P. Miroslav Tichý – Viceland Today

April 20, 2011