The Chris Hondros Fund has been established to honour Chris Hondros, the award-winning Getty Images photojournalist who was killed, alongside Tim Hetherington, on 20 April in an attack by government forces in Misrata, Libya.

Launched by Christina Piaia, Hondros' fiancé, The Chris Hondros Fund will "support and advance the work of photojournalists who espouse the legacy and vision of Chris Hondros and raise understanding of the issues facing those reporting from conflict zones through fellowships, grantmaking and education."

In a statement, Piaia says: "Chris devoted his life to bringing the hardships and conflicts from Kosovo to Liberia to Afghanistan to Iraq into the public eye. We are setting up this fund to honour Chris' memory, to support his colleagues and peers reporting from conflict areas and help aspiring photojournalists and journalists to cover critical world-issues."

The fund's board of directors include Pancho Bernasconi, Getty Images' director of photography and Todd Heisler, a New York Times staff photographer. Both of them will be joined by Piaia.

The fund will offer, each year, a fellowship to "an outstanding photojournalist who is committed to creating a visual history that brings shared human experiences into the public eye and whose work shows exceptional promise."

It will award another fellowship to one of the attendees of the Eddie Adams Workship. "Recipients should demonstrate a commitment to documenting a visual history of newsworthy events in the 'spirit' of Chris Hondros," says the fund. "Hondros attended the Workshop as a student in 1993, and returned as a team leader in 2007."

Earlier this month, Enrico Fabian received the first Hondros Fellow award "based on his powerful body of work created during the workshop, his telling portfolio and unyielding commitment to photojournalism," says the fund.

The fund will also provide grants to non-profit organisations and academic institutions to support projects that "advance the work of aspiring photojournalists and working photojournalists and to protect and assist journalists whose work demonstrates the fund's mission."

These grants could also be used to assist in raising public awareness of the effects of conflict on civilians, combatants, and society.

For more information and to donate to the fund, visit www.chrishondrosfund.org.