Chris Hondros - a retrospective in pictures

Chris Hondros in Afghanistan. The 41-year-old was fatally wounded during an assignment in Misrata, Libya
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A Libyan rebel fighter runs up a burning stairwell to try to dislodge government loyalist troops firing from an upstairs room in downtown Misrata Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Libyan rebel fighters carry a comrade wounded during fighting against government loyalist troops on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

A rebel fighter celebrates as his comrades fire a rocket at troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi near Ajdabiyah in Libya Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Doctors treat a baby who suffered cuts from shrapnel that blasted through the window of his home in the besieged rebel-held city of Misrata, Libya Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

A rebel fighter moves through a hole punched in a wall near front line fighting on Tripoli Street in Misrata, Libya Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

A woman protesting against the Egyptian government shelters in a burnt-out car in Tahrir Square in Cairo Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

A supporter of ousted president Hosni Mubarak rides a camel through a crowd of protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Haitians salvage items from the rubble in the Haitian capital of Port-au Prince after the 2010 earthquake Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

An Lehman Brothers employee carries his belongings out of the company's headquarters in New York after the 2008 financial crash Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

A traffic light hangs over floodwaters caused by Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans, in 2005 Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

An Iraqi girl screams after her parents were killed when US soldiers fired on their car when it failed to stop at a checkpoint in Iraq Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

US soldiers remove a foam cover that plugged the "spider hole" where Saddam Hussein was hiding in Ad Dawr, Iraq Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

An Iraqi boy looks out from a room where women and children are sequestered in the Shulah neighbourhood of Baghdad Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

General David Petraeus walks through a field in a neighbourhood recently seized back from militant control by US forces in Bacouba, Iraq Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

A Liberian militia commander loyal to the government cheers after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at rebel forces at a key strategic bridge in Monrovia, 2003 Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Hundreds of Liberians seeking refuge huddle outside a closed US compound surrounded by barbed wire in Monrovia Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

A malnourished two-year-old girl sits at an Action Against Hunger feeding centre in Monrovia Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

A child Liberian militia soldier loyal to the government in Monrovia Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

A photograph taken through the window of a US Army Humvee in central Herat, Afghanistan Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Schoolchildren in the Nigerian village of Akaraolu play football while the nearby Oshie gas flare roars Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Exhausted Israeli soldiers gather after a day's marching on the Israeli-Lebanese border Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

A Russian attack helicopter hovers over a convoy of Georgian police and international journalists on the outskirts of Gori, Georgia Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Georgians are crushed against a bus handing out humanitarian food aid in Gori, Georgia Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images