Saturday, April 5, 2014

The work of killed AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus - in pictures

From The Guardian.

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
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
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
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 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
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
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
South Africa's Oscar Pistorius competes in the men's 400-metre athletics semi-final in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 London Games





UPDATE
A video tribute:


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