Chris Hondros, a New York-based, award-winning staff photographer for Getty Images, was killed in Misrata, Libya on April 20, 2011 -- along with fellow photographer Tim Hetherington -- during a battle between rebel fighters and backers of Col. Muammar Gaddafi. Hondros, who died of devastating brain injuries, covered most of the world's major conflicts since the late 1990s, including wars in Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Iraq. Here, in a gallery that will have to serve as both tribute and eulogy to a colleague who will be deeply missed, LIFE.com offers some of Chris' last photos -- a graphic record of a man doing a job he loved, and doing it exceptionally well, in circumstances that, too often, were absolutely hellish.
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