Featuring: Andrea Bruce, Bryan Denton, Kiana Hayeri, Chris Hondros, Meridith Kohut, and Tamara Merino
Part of a photojournalist’s work is to visually report the struggles and successes of a complicated world. They see the range of human emotion, from joy and jubilation, to conflict and devastation, and bearing witness to such powerful intimacy is an incredible responsibility.
In their reporting, photojournalists confront stories, communities, and issues that have the ability to make them question the world around them. A Persisting Witness reflects on the times these photojournalists faced challenges or risks on assignment, leading them to a profound change in how they understand the issues they cover.
The Chris Hondros Fund (CHF) has awarded these photojournalists for their work documenting stories that bring shared, human experiences into the public eye with a compassionate lens. As attacks on the press intensify at an alarming rate, CHF believes more than ever in supporting photojournalists who remain diligent and continue to report on issues critical to our world, inform the public, and defend press freedom.
A Persisting Witness hopes to show the vital role photojournalists play, often at great personal risk, in securing our access to stories that might go otherwise unnoticed, or unreported.
Artist Bios
Andrea Bruce is an award-winning documentary photographer whose work focuses on people living in the aftermath of war. She concentrates on the social issues that are sometimes ignored, and often ignited in war’s wake. (Inaugural Chris Hondros Fund Awardee, 2012)
Bryan Denton is an award-winning independent photojournalist based between New Dehli, India, and Beirut, Lebanon. He is a contributing photographer with The New York Times, where his work has focused on conflict, humanitarian issues, and political transition in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. (Chris Hondros Fund Awardee, 2016)
Kiana Hayeri is an Iranian documentary photographer who focuses on migration, adolescence, and sexuality in societies dealing with oppression or conflict. (Chris Hondros Fund Awardee, 2016)
Chris Hondros (March 14, 1970—April 20, 2011) was an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated photojournalist, and staff photographer for Getty Images, who 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. Chris was killed while on assignment on April 20, 2011 in Misrata, Libya.
Meridith Kohut is an American photojournalist based in Caracas, Venezuela, where she has worked covering Latin America for the foreign press since 2007. For the past three years, she has spent nearly every day documenting the economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. (Chris Hondros Fund Awardee, 2017)
Tamara Merino is an independent documentary photographer and visual storyteller based in Chile, focusing on socio-cultural issues, gender, race and migration. (Hondros Fund Fellow, 2018)
Organizations
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Chris Hondros Fund
The Chris Hondros Fund was established to honor two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Getty Images photojournalist Chris Hondros, killed on April 20, 2011 while on assignment in Misurata, Libya. The fund’s purpose is to honor Hondros’s legacy by highlighting the ways in which photojournalism brings to light shared human experiences which might otherwise go unreported or unnoticed. As part of the fund’s Education and Awareness program, we support photography and visual education for youth—particularly in underserved communities in New York City. We support individual photographers, students of photography, and nonprofits.
A Persisting Witness
Featuring: Various Artists
Curated by: Todd Heisler Christina Piaia
Locations
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