Photographer Anja Niedringhaus in Rome in 2005. Photograph: Peter Dejong/AP
Pulitzer prize-winning photographer Anja Niedringhaus has been shot dead in Afghanistan's violent east while covering preparations for the presidential election. A frequent contributor to the Guardian, here is a retrospective of her work, from the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan to the London 2012 Olympics.
Afghan police secure the area as presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadza arrived for a campaign rally at a stadium in Kabul on 1 April 2014
Schoolchildren walk past election graffiti on their way home on the outskirts of Kandahar
An Afghan soldier and a police officer peek through a window as they queue outside a school in Kabul on the last day of voter registration for the elections
A woman holds her baby in April 2013 as she waits to try on a new burqa in a shop in the old town of Kabul
A vendor prepares balloons to sell for Valentine's Day in Islamabad, Pakistan, in February 2012
This photograph of a US marine carrying a lucky mascot as his unit pushes further into the western part of Fallujah won a Pulitzer prize in breaking news photography as part of a series of pictures of bloody combat in Iraq in 2004
South Africa's Oscar Pistorius competes in the men's 400-metre athletics semi-final in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 London Games
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