Chris Hondros

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Chris Hondros (born March 14, 1970) is a pre-eminent Pulitzer Prize-nominated war photographer.

He was born in New York City to immigrant Greek and German parents, and moved to North Carolina as a child. After receiving a degree in English Literature at North Carolina State University in 1993 and conducting his graduate work in photojournalism at Ohio University's School of Visual Communications, Hondros returned to New York to concentrate on international reporting.

Hondros has photographed in most of the world's major conflict zones since the late 1990s, including Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq, and Liberia. His work has appeared as the covers of magazines such as Newsweek and the Economist, and on the front pages of The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Hondros's images from Iraq, especially a January 2005 picture series detailing the shooting of an Iraqi family by U.S. troops in a checkpoint accident in the northern city of Tal Afar, have been published widely and have garnered worldwide acclaim and criticism.

Hondros's images have received dozens of awards, including top honors from World Press Photo in Amsterdam, the National Pictures of the Year Competition, the Visa Pour L'Image in France, and the John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club in New York. In 2004 Hondros was a Nominated Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography for his work in Liberia, and in 2006 he was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal, war photography's highest honor, for "exceptional courage and enterprise” in his work from Iraq. He lives in New York City, where he is a staff photographer for Getty Images.