Chris Hondros was born in New York City to immigrant Greek and German parents who were child refugees after World War II.
19 Facts About Chris Hondros
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Chris Hondros spent most of his childhood in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where he graduated from Terry Sanford High School in 1988.
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Chris Hondros studied English literature at North Carolina State University where he worked for the Technician, the campus newspaper.
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In 1991, Chris Hondros submitted his portfolio and was invited to attend the Eddie Adams Workshop.
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Chris Hondros began his career at the Troy Daily News in Ohio as an intern and later chief photographer before returning to Fayetteville in 1996 to begin a career with The Fayetteville Observer and to be close to his father who died of cancer in 2000.
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Chris Hondros left his job at The Fayetteville Observer in 1998 to return to New York and concentrate on international reporting.
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From his base in New York, Chris Hondros worked 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.
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Chris Hondros was awarded the United States Agency for International Development Photojournalism Grant in 1999.
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In 2001, Chris Hondros was selected for the Pew Fellowship for International Reporting through Johns Hopkins University.
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Chris Hondros went to cover the Liberian Civil War in 2003.
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When Chris Hondros returned to cover the Liberian election in 2005, he was able to meet Joseph Duo again to discuss the progress that had been made in Liberia since his last visit.
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Chris Hondros's work included disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
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The United States presidential election in 2008 found Chris Hondros photographing Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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Chris Hondros's work 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.
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Chris Hondros's photography was featured in the documentary film, Liberia: A Fragile Peace.
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The Chris Hondros Fund is a nonprofit organization established in 2011 in the memory of Hondros and his life's work.
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Campbell and Chris Hondros met and became best friends in high school.
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Campbell learned that Chris Hondros had returned to Liberia to help Duo earn his high school, college, and eventually law school education.
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The film, re-titled as Chris Hondros, had its world premiere in April 2017 at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Audience Choice Award for documentaries.