Do1thing welcomes Chris Hondros
Chris Hondros was born in 1970 in New York to immigrant Greek and German parents, both survivors of World War II, and moved to North Carolina as a child. After studying English Literature in North Carolina and taking a Masters degree at Ohio University, Hondros returned to New York to concentrate on international reporting. He’s covered most of the world’s major conflicts since the late 1990s, including wars in Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, the Republic of Georgia, Iraq, and Liberia. He is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images, and his work frequently is published in the leading newspapers and magazines of the US, Europe, and Asia.
Hondros, has received dozens of awards, including multiple honors from World Press Photo in Amsterdam, the Pictures of the Year Competition, the Visa Pour L’Image in France, and the John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club. In 2004 Hondros was a Nominated Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography for his work in Liberia, and in 2006 he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal, war photography’s highest honor, for his work in Iraq. He’s also been named a 2007 “Hero of Photography” by American Photo magazine.
In addition to his photography, Hondros is a frequent essayist on issues of war, and regularly pens essays for the Virginia Quarterly Review, Editor and Publisher, The Digital Journalist, and other publications. Hondros and his work have been profiled in Smithsonian magazine, the New York Times, and Newsweek, as well as on CNN and National Public Radio.
