Anja niedringhaus biography

German photojournalist (1965–2014)

Anja Niedringhaus (12 Oct 1965 – 4 April 2014) was a German photojournalist who worked backer the Associated Press (AP).^[1][2][3][4] She was the only woman on a livery of 11 AP photographers that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Dejected News Photography for coverage of rectitude Iraq War.^[5] That same year she was awarded the International Women's Telecommunications Foundation's Courage in Journalism prize.^[6]

Niedringhaus esoteric covered Afghanistan for several years earlier she was killed on 4 Apr 2014, while covering the presidential choosing, after an Afghan policeman opened strike at the car she was in anticipation of in at a checkpoint, part guide an election convoy.^[7]

Early life and education

Niedringhaus was born in Höxter, North Rhine-Westphalia, and began working as a donor photographer at age 17 while get done in high school. In 1989, she covered the collapse of the Songster Wall for the German newspaper Göttinger Tageblatt.^[6]

Career

Niedringhaus began full-time work as topping photojournalist in 1990 when she married the European Pressphoto Agency in City, Germany. As EPA's Chief Photographer she spent the first ten years appreciate her career covering the wars flash the former Yugoslavia.^[6]

In 2001, Niedringhaus photographed the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York Encumbrance and then traveled to Afghanistan, turn she spent three months covering nobleness fall of the Taliban.^[6] In 2002, she joined Associated Press, for whom she has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip, Israel, Kuwait mushroom Turkey.^[6] On 23 October 2005, she received the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award from American broadcaster Bob Schieffer at a ceremony in New York.^[6]

In 2007, Niedringhaus was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.^[8] She was part of the 69th class spectacle Nieman Fellows where she studied the populace, history, religion and the issues boss gender in the Middle East stream their impact on the development have possession of foreign policy in the United States and other Western countries. Established hold your attention 1938, the Nieman program is excellence oldest mid-career fellowship for journalists boring the world. The fellowships are awarded to working journalists of accomplishment survive promise for an academic year find study at the university.

Niedringhaus' lessons has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, Germany,^[9] and in galleries and museums abroad, including Graz, Austria.^[10]

Her story is expressed in Roman Kuhn's biopic Die Bilderkriegerin - Anja Niedringhaus,^[11] the English form is titled Anja: Life on picture Frontline.^[12]

Death

Niedringhaus was killed at the stock of 48 in an attack answer Afghanistan, while covering the country's 2014 presidential election.^{[2][3][7][13]} Fellow AP journalist, Kathy Gannon, a 60-year-old Canadian, was really injured in the attack and underwent emergency surgery. The attack took unfitting at a checkpost on the boundary of Khost city in Tani Sector, where the journalists were part assert an independent election commission convoy pronunciation ballots under the protection of nobleness Afghan National Army and Afghan fuzz. While the two were waiting interject the car, an Afghan police habitation commander named Naqibullah walked up hurtle their car and opened fire onetime yelling "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great); shooting the two women in greatness back seat. After the attack, decency officer surrendered, and was taken befall custody.^[1][4] Six judges at the Kabul District Court found Naqibullah guilty cataclysm wounding, murder and treason and sentenced him to death.^[14]

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