Chris Hondros of Getty Images was taking his customarily intimate, insightful photographs before being killed in Libya on Wednesday.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/chris-hondros-at-work-in-libya/
These pictures, taken earlier in the day, show why Mr. Hondros earned the respect of his colleagues for combat images that were gripping and intimate
I remember my mother pulling a picture out of our local Seattle Times newspaper for me, running large on the third page. A news picture tucked inside the paper, sitting on its own, was odd to see. It was as if the editors thought they had to get a great picture published even if it wasn’t ‘newsworthy’ for a local paper. I was blown away, I’m sure I said outloud that this picture would win a Pulitzer.
Netflix subscribers will soon be able to watch HONDROS, the documentary about late photojournalist Chris Hondros, who was killed in April 2011 while reporting on the civil war in Libya. According to entertainment publication Variety, Netflix paid “in the six-figure range” for the rights to stream the film, which debuted at Tribeca Film Festival in April 2017, where it earned the Audience Award. Director Greg Campbell, a longtime friend and colleague of Hondros, also earned a special jury mention for Best First-Time Documentary Director.
A show at the Bronx Documentary Center reveals how Liberia’s civil war shaped the lives and careers of Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/lens/remembering-hondros-hetherington.html
A show at the Bronx Documentary Center reveals how Liberia’s civil war shaped the lives and careers of Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington.
Getty Images award-winning photojournalist John Moore has traveled the world capturing horrific scenes of violence from war zones to egregious human rights violations. For the past decade, Moore has been photographing the migrant crisis, and ended up in R
via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2018/06/photographing-the-agonizing-pain-of-children-john-moore-chris-hondros/
Getty Images award-winning photojournalist John Moore has traveled the world capturing horrific scenes of violence from war zones to egregious human rights violations. For the past decade, Moore has been photographing the migrant crisis, and ended up in Rio Grande, TX last week where he encountered a Honduran refugee breastfeeding her 2-year old child while trying to cross the border.
A collection of photos by and of Chris Hondros, who risked and then tragically lost his life to show the world the reality of warfare, now the subject of a new documentary film: “Hondros.”
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/a-new-documentary-honors-the-work-and-life-of-photojournalist-chris-hondros/554966/
Conflict photographer Chris Hondros, working for Getty Images, covered major events from the attacks of September 11 through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the civil war in Liberia, and the chaos of the Arab Spring in Egypt and Libya. Hondros was killed while on assignment in Libya in 2011 in an attack that also took the life of photojournalist Tim Hetherington. The attack took place while they were covering the armed uprising against the government of Muammar Qaddafi. Released over the weekend and available today online is a new documentary film titled Hondros, directed by Chris’s friend Greg Campbell, and executive produced by Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Lee Curtis. The powerful photographs that Hondros made speak volumes about our era, and many belong in history books. The relationships that Hondros made throughout his lifetime speak even louder, leaving an amazing legacy that—along with his images—is examined in this film. Below, a handful of photos by and of Chris Hondros, who risked and then tragically lost his life to show the world the reality of warfare.
The $10,000 grant, created by the Chris Hondros Fund, will go to ProPublica
via Time: http://time.com/4760294/domestic-reporting-hondros-grant/
The new grant, worth $10,000, is dedicated to the defense of press freedom in the U.S. and will fund two to three stories produced by the non-profit news organization ProPublica.
Friends and colleagues remember the two photographers killed in Libya five years ago
via Time: http://time.com/4298368/what-we-learned-from-chris-hondros-and-tim-hetherington/
Friends and colleagues remember the two photographers killed in Libya five years ago
Many years ago, I had the pleasure of seeing the late Chris Hondros speak at the Eddie Adams Workshop. During his presentation, he showed an entire of sequence of images that led up to this 2005 image of a 5-year-old Samar Hassan with blood covered hands
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2015/08/walking-through-war/
Ten years after Hondros photographed Hassan, The New York Times published a feature entitled “Walking in War’s Path” that takes the viewer through a tour of eight different places in and around Gaza on the one year anniversary of the war. The perspective includes both Israelis and Palestinians – lives filled with destruction and fear.
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/04/20/remembering-chris-hondros/
It has been three years since photographer Chris Hondros was killed, along with fellow photojournalist Tim Hetherington, during a firefight in Misrata, Libya, on April 20th 2011. With the recent release of Testament — a moving collection of Hondros’ photographs and writing – Getty’s Vice President/News, Pancho Bernasconi talks to TIME about one of the American conflict photographer’s most poignant and shocking images: that of a young girl who just witnessed the death of her parents in Tal Afar, Iraq.
A collection of photographs and writing by the late photojournalist Chris Hondros titled Testament, published by PowerHouse Books, has been released…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/04/18/chris_hondros_testament_is_a_book_that_covers_the_photojournalist_s_career.html
A collection of photographs and writing by the late photojournalist Chris Hondros titled Testament, published by PowerHouse Books, has been released nearly three years after Hondros was killed while on assignment in Libya. Testament includes a significant amount of Hondros’ work covering conflicts around the world beginning in the late 1990s, including those in Africa and the Middle East.
Whenever Chris Hondros returned to New York City after a long assignment, it was like a roving professor holding office hours. One meeting at Caffe Reggio in Greenwich Village would morph into drinks or dinner with out-of-towners visiting Brooklyn. Friends came and went, but the discussion was always rich and lively. That’s what I miss the most about him.
Award-winning photojournalist Chris Hondros was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade while covering the Libyan conflict in 2011. As a book of his images and writing is published, Jonathan Klein, CEO of Getty Images, shares his memories
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/media/photography-blog/2014/mar/19/chris-hondros-photographer-gave-his-life-to-tell-truth-gaddafis-libya
Award-winning photojournalist Chris Hondros was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade while covering the Libyan conflict in 2011. As a book of his images and writing is published, Jonathan Klein, CEO of Getty Images, shares his memories
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“War gives you meaning,” he said, “an appreciation of life, and a chemical rush. That’s good. If anything else gave you all that, I’d be doing it every day. War is giving you these things that everyone seeks and presents it in a package. You never get those three things together in anything else. You can go skydiving but that’s not meaningful, it’s just an indulgence. War is everything.”
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via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/03/18/a-decade-of-war-in-iraq-the-images-that-moved-them-most/#1
In the five years Baghdad was my home, I got to work (or just hang out) with some of the finest news photographers in the world: Yuri Kozyrev, Franco Pagetti, Kate Brooks, James Nachtwey, Robert Nicklesberg, Lynsey Addario, the late Chris Hondros… the list is as long as it is distinguished. Their immense talent and incredible bravery combined to make the Iraq war arguably the most exhaustively photographed conflict in human history. This selection doesn’t begin to capture the immensity of their collective achievement, but it is evocative of the horrors — and just occasionally, hope — they were able to chronicle.
We conclude our series remembering Chris Hondros: Tyler Hicks, Darren McCollester, Shannon Stapleton, James Pomerantz, and Bruno Stevens. Additional photos and videos by Tim Fadek, Mark Ovaska, and Alan Chin.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2011/05/remembering-chris-hondros-part-iv/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Bagnewsnotes+(BAGnewsNotes)
We continue our series of posts of remembrance of our friend, comrade, and brother on another sad day.
Several days after this tragedy, you received a phone call from Paul Wolfowitz. Even though the picture revealed Bush’s military vagrancy, the Pentagon’s Deputy Secretary of Defense admired your work and invited you to lunch to ask you how to become a war photographer.
Link: Homage to a friend Chris Hondros | La Lettre de la Photographie
