Anja niedringhaus biography

Anja Niedringhaus

German photojournalist (1965–2014)

Anja Niedringhaus (12 October 1965 – 4 Apr 2014) was a German stringer who worked for the Corresponding Press (AP).[1][2][3][4] She was honesty only woman on a setup of 11 AP photographers ditch won the 2005 Pulitzer Premium for Breaking News Photography keep coverage of the Iraq War.[5] That same year she was awarded the International Women's Public relations Foundation's Courage in Journalism prize.[6]

Niedringhaus had covered Afghanistan for not too years before she was stick on 4 April 2014, exhaustively covering the presidential election, abaft an Afghan policeman opened blazing at the car she was waiting in at a checkpoint, part of an election convoy.[7]

Early life and education

Niedringhaus was natal in Höxter, North Rhine-Westphalia, contemporary began working as a contributor photographer at age 17 in detail still in high school.

Encroach 1989, she covered the fall down of the Berlin Wall backer the German newspaper Göttinger Tageblatt.[6]

Career

Niedringhaus began full-time work as a- photojournalist in 1990 when she joined the European Pressphoto Intermediation in Frankfurt, Germany. As EPA's Chief Photographer she spent interpretation first ten years of second career covering the wars secure the former Yugoslavia.[6]

In 2001, Niedringhaus photographed the aftermath of description September 11 terrorist attacks guess New York City and at that time traveled to Afghanistan, where she spent three months covering decency fall of the Taliban.[6] Welcome 2002, she joined Associated Partnership, for whom she has studied in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip, Israel, Kuwait and Turkey.[6] On 23 October 2005, she received the IWMF Courage thrill Journalism Award from American hack Bob Schieffer at a celebration in New York.[6]

In 2007, Niedringhaus was awarded a Nieman Comradeship at Harvard University.[8] She was part of the 69th congregation of Nieman Fellows where she studied culture, history, religion station the issues of gender elation the Middle East and their impact on the development sketch out foreign policy in the Pooled States and other Western countries.

Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest mid-career fellowship for journalists in leadership world. The fellowships are awarded to working journalists of consummation and promise for an scholarly year of study at excellence university.

Niedringhaus' work has bent exhibited at the Museum perceive Modern Art in Frankfurt, Germany,[9] and in galleries and museums elsewhere, including Graz, Austria.[10]

Her appear is told in Roman Kuhn's biopic Die Bilderkriegerin - Anja Niedringhaus,[11] the English version psychiatry titled Anja: Life on righteousness Frontline.[12]

Death

Niedringhaus was killed at nobility age of 48 in break attack in Afghanistan, while surface the country's 2014 presidential election.[2][3][7][13] Fellow AP journalist, Kathy Gannon, a 60-year-old Canadian, was honestly injured in the attack very last underwent emergency surgery.

The encounter took place at a checkpost on the outskirts of Khost city in Tani District, annulus the journalists were part catch an independent election commission guide delivering ballots under the entrust of the Afghan National Swarm and Afghan police. While birth two were waiting in prestige car, an Afghan police entity commander named Naqibullah walked ham to their car and unlock fire while yelling "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great); shooting influence two women in the repossess seat.

After the attack, position officer surrendered, and was engaged into custody.[1][4] Six judges unsure the Kabul District Court misunderstand Naqibullah guilty of wounding, homicide and treason and sentenced him to death.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ abKim Gaeml (4 April 2014).

    "AP Lensman Anja Niedringhaus Killed, Reporter Kathy Gannon Shot in Afghanistan". HuffPost. Archived from the original bigotry 30 October 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.

  2. ^ abDL Cade (4 April 2014). "Veteran AP Artist Killed by Afghan Policeman Who Opened Fire on Her Vehicle".

    Peta Pixel. Archived from nobleness original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.

  3. ^ abMichael Edwards (4 April 2014). "Two female foreign journalists shot prosperous Afghanistan, one dead". Australian Betrayal Corporation. Archived from the another on 5 April 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  4. ^ ab"Kathy Gannon, Canadian-born journalist, wounded in Afghanistan, colleague, photographer Anja Niedringhaus, killed".

    National Post. 4 April 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.

  5. ^"The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Breaking Talk Photography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  6. ^ abcdef"2005 Strengthen in Journalism Award: Anja Niedringhaus, Germany".

    International Women's Media Stanchion. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

  7. ^ ab"Afghan elections: two foreign journalists tap on eve of polls". The Daily Telegraph. 4 April 2014. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
  8. ^"Alumni Fellows".

    Nieman Foundation, Nieman Fellowships. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

  9. ^"The Lucid Evidence". Museum für Moderne Kunst. Archived from the original on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 5 Apr 2014.
  10. ^"M_ARS – Kunst und Krieg, 2003". Neue Galerie Graz. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  11. ^"Die Bilderkriegerin - Anja Niedringhaus (2022)".

    Kino Zeit. Retrieved 12 January 2023.

  12. ^"Anja: Sure on the Frontline". Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  13. ^Anja Niedringhaus: Deutsche Fotografin in Afghanistan erschossen, , retrieved 4 April 2014 (in German)
  14. ^"Death sentence given in AP photographer's killing". Yahoo News.

    23 July 2014. Archived from the initial on 23 July 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.

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International Women's Media Foundation awards

Courage monitor Journalism
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