MISRATA, Libya -- Chris Hondros, a New York-based photographer for Getty Images was one of two Western photojournalists killed in the besieged city of Misrata on Wednesday while covering battles between rebels and Libyan government forces, according to the Associated Press. British-born Tim Hetherington, co-director of the documentary "Restrepo" about U.S. soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan, was also killed inside the only rebel-held city in western Libya, said his U.S.-based publicist. The city has come under weeks of relentless shelling by government troops.
Hondros's work has appeared in major magazines and newspapers around the world, and his awards include the Robert Capa Gold Medal, one of the highest prizes in war photography.
Here is a collection some of Hondros' work in Libya during the last week.
It is indeed a sad day to have lost such a talented photojournalist. (53 images)
Hondros's work has appeared in major magazines and newspapers around the world, and his awards include the Robert Capa Gold Medal, one of the highest prizes in war photography.
Here is a collection some of Hondros' work in Libya during the last week.
It is indeed a sad day to have lost such a talented photojournalist. (53 images)
To view a gallery work by Chris Hondros over the years, click here.
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Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros stands in front of a burning building while on assignment on April 18, 2011, in Misrata, Libya. Hondros was killed on April 20, 2011 when a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) struck a house he was in. Getty Images
Libyan rebel forces fire a heavy rocket propelled grenade at a building holding surrounded government loyalist troops during street fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata April 20, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Rebel forces assaulted the downtown positions of troops loyal to Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi April 20, briefly forcing them back over a key bridge and trapping several in a building that rebel troops then surrounded and peppered with gunfire when they refused to surrender. Fighting continues between Libyan government forces that have surrounded the city and anti-government rebels ensconced there. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A Libyan rebel fighter covers a burning room containing ensconced government loyalist troops who were firing on them during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata April 20, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Rebel fighters carefully move into a building where they had trapped government loyalist troops during street fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misurata April 20, 2011 in Misurata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Rebel fighters fire at government loyalist troops during street fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misurata April 20, 2011 in Misurata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Libyan rebel fighters discuss how to dislodge some ensconced government loyalist troops who were firing on them from the next room during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata April 20, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Libyan rebel fighters carry out a comrade wounded during an effort to dislodge some ensconced government loyalist troops who were firing on them from a building (background) during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata April 20, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Rebel fighters move in back alleys near Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata April 19, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Tripoli Street once was Misrata's posh main avenue for shops and expensive apartments; now weeks of house-to-house battles between forces loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi and rebels have turned it into a war zone and left in ruins. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Selima Abdullah (L) caresses her youngest granddaughter Heba, who suffered a ripped-open abdomen from shrapnel, after an explosive shell landing near her home during fighting in the besieged city of Misrata two days earlier on April 19, 2011 at a hosptial in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
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 the city April 19, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A gravedigger turns earth while digging a grave for a civilian victim of the Libyan conflict April 19, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. The simple graveyard in Misrata has hundreds of simple concrete graves; many dozens are those that have been killed during the last two months of fighting in the besieged town. Thousands of civilians are trapped in Misrata as fighting continues between Libyan government forces that have surrounded the city and anti-government rebels there. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A man cries in a graveyard during the funeral of Nasser Ali Afglio, a young Libyan rebel killed during battle with government troops loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi April 19, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A man smooths down wet concrete over the grave of Nasser Ali Afglio, a young Libyan rebel killed during battle with government troops loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi April 19, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A man tends to his brother's wounds after he was wounded driving his car the day before during fighting in the besieged city at a hospital on April 18, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A wounded Libyan man has his X-rays looked over by a friend in the hospital on April 18, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A rebel fighter wounded by shrapnel in the leg is brought to the hospital in the besieged city on April 18, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A Libyan government fighter captured by rebels has his bound hands freed by doctors before he is treated in the hospital on April 18, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A rebel fighter ducks from incoming fire at the front lines on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata April 18, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A rebel fighter moves through a hole punched in a wall near the front line fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata April 18, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A rebel fighter fires at troops loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi at the front lines on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata April 18, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A rebel fighter fires through a sniper hole at troops loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi at the front lines on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata April 18, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
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 Misrata April 18, 2011 as the sun sets on the port in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
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 Misrata April 18, 2011 as the sun sets on the port in Misrata, Libya. Thousands of foreign workers and Libyans alike are trying to leave war-torn Misrata, as fighting continued between Libyan government forces and anti-government rebels. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
The Nigerian daughter of migrant worker waits with a bag to board a relief ship to leave the besieged city of Misrata April 17, 2011 at the port in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
The Ionian Spirit ferry waits in port to load evacuees in the besieged city of Misrata April 17, 2011 at the port in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Libyan anti-government sympathizers conduct Friday Muslim prayers in a central square near the sea April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Life in the rebel capital of Benghazi continues, even as troops loyal to Gaddafi battle with rebel fighters at front lines about 100 miles away, and while residents wonder whether they can escape the pull of Gaddafi's 42-year long rule. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Muhammed, a friend of Ramadan Omar Balah, kisses his grave moments after Balah's burial April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Balah, an rebel against longtime Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi's rule, was killed a day ago by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi sympathizers on the outskirts of Benghazi, a reminder of the brutal civil conflict that is engulfing the north African country. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Friends and relatives of Ramadan Omar Balah shout out during his burial April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Balah, an rebel against longtime Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi's rule, was killed a day ago by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi sympathizers on the outskirts of Benghazi. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A Libyan rebel honor guard fires into the air during the burial of Ramadan Omar Balah April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A Libyan rebel supporter walks in a march of thousands demanding the end of longtime Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi's rule rule April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Thousands of Libyans marched through the streets of Benghazi on Friday afternoon, chanting for the end of the Gaddafi, regime even as troops loyal to Colonel Gaddafi battled with rebel fighters at front lines about 100 miles away. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Libyan rebel supporters march while demanding the end of longtime Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi's rule April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A Libyan rebel supporter walks with a flag during a march to demand the end of longtime Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi's rule April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A Libyan girl peers out of a car during a march to demand the end of longtime Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi's rule April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Ali Salem el-Faizani, 10, directs traffic at a street corner while working as a traffic cop April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Schools have been closed throughout eastern Libya for nearly two months due to the ongoing civil conflict; some children like Ali are working to pass the time, in his case finding a job via a Boy Scout-like youth troop that's affiliated with the Benghazi traffic police. ""I like directing the cars around," Ali says. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Migrant workers stand huddled together waiting to disembark a ship that evacuated them from the besieged city of Misrata April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Nearly 1,200 Asian and African migrants escaped from war-torn Misrata today, evacuated by international aid organizations aboard a chartered Greek vessel for the relative safety of Benghazi in Libya's rebel-held east. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Migrant workers stand in line waiting to disembark a ship that evacuated them from the besieged city of Misrata April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Children wait with their mother to disembark a ship that evacuated them from the besieged city of Misrata April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A Syrian girl waits with her family to disembark a ship that evacuated them from the besieged city of Misrata April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Migrant workers stand in line waiting to disembark a ship that evacuated them from the besieged city of Misrata April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A sick migrant worker is placed on a gurney for disembarkment from a ship that evacuated refugees from the besieged city of Misrata April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A migrant worker searches through piled-up luggage after an evacuation trip from the besieged city of Misrata April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Two girls from a Syrian migrant family disembark a ship that evacuated them from the besieged city of Misrata April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A rebel fighter celebrates as his comrades fire a rocket barrage toward the positions of troops loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi April 14, 2011 west of Ajdabiyah, Libya. Rebels exchanged artillery and rocket fire with loyalist troops west of Ajdabiyah April 14 as the conflict engulfing Libya continued. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Rebel fighters load up rockets before launching a barrage toward positions of troops loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi April 14, 2011 west of Ajdabiyah, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Rebel fighters on a launch truck watch the path of a rocket they fired toward troops loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi April 14, 2011 west of Ajdabiyah, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A rebel fighter talks on a cell phone during an exchange of artillery between rebel and government loyalist troops April 14, 2011 west of Ajdabiyah, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Libyan rebel soldiers return from the front lines April 14, 2011 west of Ajdabiyah, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Libyan rebel soldiers sit in the back of a truck after returning from the front lines April 14, 2011 west of Ajdabiyah, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Rebel fighters load up rockets before launching a barrage toward positions of troops loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi April 14, 2011 west of Ajdabiyah, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
Rebel fighters head out to front line positions April 14, 2011 west of Ajdabiyah, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A rebel fighter gathers with his comrades before a artillery exchange with government loyalist troops April 14, 2011 west of Ajdabiyah, Libya. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A Libyan rebel fighter sits in a truck in the desert April 13, 2011 east of Ajdabiyah, Libya. Rebels continued to hold the strategic town of Ajdabiyah April 13, in a stalemate with troops loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi, who continued to periodically mortar rebel positions from their positions in the nearby desert. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
A worker stands in a hallway of hotel that was attacked by Libyan loyalist forces several days ago April 13, 2011 in Ajdabiyah, Libya. The Libyan army loyalists shot up the hotel during intense fighting for Ajdabiyah and then entered the hotel looking for foreign journalists, the last of which had fled less than an hour before, according to hotel staff. Chris Hondros / Getty Images
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