Régis Le Sommier was a close friend of Chris Hondros. Together they covered the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan several times. Régis wrote this beautiful article about Chris for the last issue of Paris Match. I learned the news when I landed in New York. Your picture ...

02.05.2011[ read full story ]

During the last several days, two particularly emotional homages were made to Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, one by Sebastien Junger from Vanity Fair, the other by Donald R. Winslow from News Photographer magazine. Here are the links.

26.04.2011[ read full story ]

Following injury to his head, Chris Hondros died a few hours after Tim. Wednesday, a photo that he had shot made the front page of the Washington Post. A man portrayed digging out a tomb in a cemetary in Misrata. Chris was 41 years old, member of Getty agency ...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

The news fell at the end of the afternoon. Tim Hetherington was just killed in a mortar attack in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros, in critical condition, but alive. Then just a few hours later, Chris died. Tim Hetherington, born in Liverpool, was 41 years old. He had...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Czech Photographer Miroslav Tichy passed away this past April 12, 2011, at the age of 85. He was born in Netcice, Moravia on November 20th, 1926. After beginning his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, he began his career as a painter before becoming a photogra...

18.04.2011[ read full story ]

The photographer-reporter Yves Debraine passed away last Thursday in Lausanne, at the age of 85. Based in Switzerland since 1948, the Parisian-born Debraine worked for decades for diverse titles such as « L’Illustré », the “Schweizer Illustrierte” and “L’Hebdo”.

05.04.2011[ read full story ]

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and filmmaker Brian Lanker, a newspaper and Life magazine, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated photographer whose book “I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America” was one of the most successful photo...

17.03.2011[ read full story ]

VanityFair.com presented yesterday a slide show of the photos taken with the very last roll of Kodachrome to come off Kodak’s assembly line. The three dozen frames by photographer Steve McCurry, depict scenes from New York, Bombay, Rajasthan, Bombay, Istanbul, London, and f...

10.02.2011[ read full story ]

During the exhibition devoted to Henri Huet, a very moving debate took place on Monday, February 7 entitled «From Henri Huet to Lucas Dolega : photojournalists in war zones». Participants included Horst Faas, director of photographic operations in Vietnam for the Associated Press from 1962...

09.02.2011[ read full story ]

Lucas Dolega’s funeral was held last Thursday in Paris’ Père Lachaise cemetery. Among the anonymous crowd that came out to honor his memory were fifty photographers both freelance and from international press agencies.

31.01.2011[ read full story ]