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tagged: Chris Hondros: Award-winning photojournalist killed in mortar attack in Libya
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix
International award-winning war photojournalist Chris Hondros, who grew up in Fayetteville and was a former Fayetteville Observer staff member, was killed in a mortar attack Wednesday in the embattled Libyan city of Misrata. He was covering the battles of Gaddafi’s forces and rebels. Chris Hondros was the child of a Greek father and a German mother.
He was 41.
Mr. Hondros, a 1988 graduate of Terry Sanford High School, made a career of venturing to the world’s most dangerous places to capture the human face of war. He won the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal in 2005 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2004.
He was on assignment for Getty Images, covering the front lines of Libya’s civil war, when he was killed. His work appeared on the front pages of Wednesday’s Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
Also killed was Tim Hetherington, co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Restrepo.” At least two other journalists were reported injured in the explosion.
“Chris understood the importance of what he did and that it was done inside a world no one would ever want to go,” said freelance photojournalist Steve Hebert, also a former Fayetteville Observer photographer and a close friend of Mr. Hondros. “He wanted to tell people’s stories. And very few people in this industry have done it better.”
Mr. Hondros lived in New York but maintained close ties with friends all over the world, including in Fayetteville where his mother, Inge Hondros, lives. He was engaged to marry New York lawyer Christina Piaia this summer. (from Fayobserver)
See Chris Hondros photo work here
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