Chris Hondros

Biography

Chris Hondros was a prize-winning phtotojournalist who died in 2011 while on assignment in Libya. He worked in Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, and Liberia, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography in 2004 for his work in Liberia. He was awarded the 2005 Robert Capa Gold Medal, war photography’s highest honor, for “exceptional courage and enterprise” in his work from Iraq.

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See Work

ESSAYS / Spring 2010

Haiti, Fallen

By Chris Hondros

Haiti, as it turns out, isn’t particularly prone to earthquakes. Hurricanes and political turmoil, yes: it seems that every few years Haiti is buffeted with one or the other of those, and, either way, lots of people are killed. But...

ESSAYS / Summer 2007

A Window on Baghdad

By Chris Hondros

The window of a Humvee rolling through Baghdad’s dangerous streets is essentially a television, watched in the dark. The glass is dirty and three inches thick: everything has a hazy and muted look, like a rerun of an old seventies movie...
ESSAYS / Winter 2007

The Fire: The Price of Oil in Africa

By Chris Hondros

Nigeria should be a massively rich country. It’s the most populous nation in Africa and the world’s sixth leading oil producer. Over a quarter trillion dollars in oil has been lifted from Nigerian soils and waters in the last four decades...

ESSAYS / Spring 2004

Inside Saddam’s Spider Hole

By Chris Hondros

Two pairs of shoes still in their boxes: a pair of clean new Hongmahwang loafers and a pair of gilded, tacky Italian slippers. The footwear of a madman caught last December hiding in a rat-filled hole almost within sight of one of his many...