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Work from Chris Hondros’s career The photographer died Wednesday after being wounded while reporting in Libya. Here is a collection of his work from Liberia to Libya and Afghanistan to Egypt.
Aug. 21, 2006
Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros walks the ruins of a building in southern Beirut, Lebanon. Hondros, who was on assignment in Misurata, Libya, was killed Wednesday after a rocket-propelled grenade struck a house he was in.
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April 20, 2011
A libyan rebel fighter runs up a burning stairwell during an effort to dislodge some ensconced government troops who were firing on them from an upstairs room during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misurata, Libya.
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April 20, 2011
Rebel fighters fire at government loyalist troops during fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misurata, Libya.
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April 20, 2011
Libyan rebel forces fire a heavy rocket-propelled grenade at a building holding surrounded government loyalist troops during fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misurata, Libya.
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April 20, 2011
A Libyan rebel fighter celebrates as comrades fire on government loyalist troops who refused to surrunder in a surrounded building, background, during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misurata, Libya.
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April 18, 2011
Doctors work on a baby who suffered cuts from shrapnel that blasted through the window of his home earlier in the morning during fighting in the besieged city at a hospital in Misurata, Libya. Thousands of civilians are trapped in Misurata as fighting continues between Libyan government forces that have surrounded the city and anti-government rebels there. The Libyan government has come under international criticism for using heavy weapons and artillery in its assault on Misurata, which can cause civilian casualties.
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April 18, 2011
A rebel fighter wounded by shrapnel in the leg is brought to the hospital in the besieged city of Misurata, Libya.
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April 18, 2011
A rebel fighter moves through a hole punched in a wall near the front-line fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misurata, Libya.
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April 19, 2011
A worker pauses while digging a grave for a civilian victim of the Libyan conflict in Misurata. The graveyard in Misurata has hundreds of simple concrete graves; many dozens are for those who have been killed during the last two months of fighting in the besieged town. Thousands of civilians are trapped in Misurata as fighting continues between Libyan government forces that have surrounded the city and anti-government rebels there.
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April 19, 2011
Ziad, a brother of slain rebel Nasser Ali Afglio, is consoled by a friend during the funeral for the young Libyan rebel killed during a recent battle with government troops loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi in Misurata, Libya.
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Feb. 10, 2011
A government protester is carried on shoulders before a speech by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Tahrir Square in Cairo.
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Feb. 1, 2011
A man looks through the legs of other protesters during a massive anti-government rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo to demand the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek.
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April 18, 2011
Foreign workers from Nigeria, Ghana and other African countries pile in the back of a truck with their belongings trying to leave the besieged city of Misurata, Libya, as the sun sets on its port.
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April 14, 2011
A rebel fighter celebrates as his comrades fire a rocket barrage toward the positions of troops loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi west of Ajdabiya, Libya.
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Jan. 18, 2005
Samar Hassan, 5, screams after her parents were killed by U.S. Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division in a shooting in Tall Afar, Iraq. The troops fired on the Hassan family car when it unwittingly approached them during a dusk patrol in the tense northern Iraqi town. Parents Hussein and Camila Hassan were killed instantly, and a son, Racan, 11, was seriously wounded in the abdomen. Racan, paralyzed from the waist down, was treated later in the United States.
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June 21, 2010
Spec. Christian Hoffman of Sanford, Fla., a medic with the 82nd Airborne Division, listens for the heartbeat of a gravely wounded man after a civilian truck hit a buried mine intended for the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division in Khushi Khona, Afghanistan, in the northern reaches of Herat province near the Turkmenistan border. Eight local Afghan men were aboard the truck, returning from a routine trip to buy sheep, when they struck a powerful buried explosive along a route frequented by the 82nd Airbone Division when they patrol the remote area. Five of the men were killed instantly; three others were seriously wounded and were treated by 82nd Airborne medics on the scene, and were then flown out by Medevac helicopter.
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Oct. 7, 2009
U.S. Army Engineer Staff Sgt. Rick Atkinson of Roswell, N.M., plays with a puppy that soldiers of Forward Operating Base Zerok adopted in Zerok, Afghanistan.
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Aug. 7, 2003
Liberians celebrate and cheer as Nigerian peacekeepers make their first rounds through the center of Monrovia, Liberia. Jubilant Liberians met the peacekeepers all along a patrol through the capital, cheering the arrival of troops to help end the Liberian civil war.
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July 30, 2003
A child Liberian militia soldier loyal to the government walks away from firing while another taunts them in Monrovia, Liberia.
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July 20, 2003
A Liberian militia commander loyal to the government exults after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at rebel forces at a key strategic bridge in Monrovia, Liberia. Government forces succeeded in forcing back rebel forces in fierce fighting on the edge of Monrovia's city center.
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