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Joseph Duo, a Liberian militia commander loyal to the government, exults after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at rebel forces at a key strategic bridge on July 20, 2003, in Monrovia, Liberia. © Chris Hondros/Getty Images
Chris Hondros (March 14, 1970 — April 20, 2011) was an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated photojournalist for Getty Images killed on assignment in Libya. He covered most of the world’s major conflicts and disasters since the late 1990s, including work in Kosovo, Afghanistan, the West Bank, Iraq, Liberia, Egypt and Libya. Hondros was also a frequent lecturer and published essayist on issues of war, and he regularly wrote for the Virginia Quarterly Review, Editor & Publisher, the Digital Journalist, and other news publications. As a staff photographer for Getty Images since 2000, he was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography. During his career, he received dozens of awards, among them honors from World Press Photo, the Pictures of the Year International competition, Visa pour L’Image, and the Overseas Press Club, including the John Faber Award for his work in Liberia and the Robert Capa Gold Medal, war photography’s highest honor, for his work covering the conflict in Iraq.