Chris Hondros; A War Photographer Who Lost His Life For His Passion & Reflecting The Truth

Chris Hondros was an American war photographer. He was born from Greek and German parents who were survivors of World War II and they had taken asylum in the United States of America.

After graduating high school, he studied English literature at North Carolina State University and at the same time he used to work for a newspaper. He took a master’s degree from Ohio University where he mastered visual communications and officially he started his career for Troy Daily NEWS and some other local NEWS channels.

In 1998, he left working for NEWS channels and started international reporting and worked in the most war zone areas of the world such as: Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir, Liberia, Angola and Kosovo. Hondros was nominated two times for Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography and he was awarded United States Agency for International Development photojournalism.

He was very passionate about his work and people described him as the selfless war photographer that put efforts in his work to reflect the reality. His works were published by world’s top NEWS channels and magazines like: Newsweek, The Economist, The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles times and couple of other national and international news channels.

Chris Hondros was badly wounded during reporting in Libyan civil war in 2010. Chris Hondros Fund was established in 2011 with a purpose to advocate photographers. 

Chris Hondros was awarded many awards for his work like: World Press photo award, Overseas press club award, International picture of the year award, American photo magazine award and many other awards for his fruitful works.





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