Mourning Anja Niedringhaus

Anja Niedringhaus and Canadian journalist Kathy Gannon were traveling in a convoy guarded by police officers and soldiers near Khost in eastern Afghanistan. A policeman approached their car and opened fire. Niedringhaus was killed instantly, while Gannon was severely injured.

Niedringhaus had worked as a photographer for more than 20 years, and had years of experience in Afghanistan and other crisis areas. At the time of the attack, she was working for the AP news agency.

Agency photography routinely took Niedringhaus to places of conflict. But the war photographer always kept an eye out for life beyond the battlefield. She took this photo of children at play in Khost on the day before she was killed.

Niedringhaus took this photo shortly before the attack, too. The security situation in Afghanistan is tense ahead of the presidential elections. According to Reporters without Borders, three journalists have been killed there since the election campaign started.

In 2005, Niedringhaus won the Pulitzer Prize in the "Breaking News Photography" category for her haunting photographs from Iraq.

This photo was taken in Sarajevo. The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-95) was the German reporter's first conflict assignment. She was shot at there, too, but wore a bullet proof vest.

Her job took Niedringhaus to various crisis regions, including Libya, Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan. This picture shows a student in Pakistan.

Niedringhaus shot this picture during an attack on Kabul's international district in October, 2013. "Of course, fear is part of the job because that's your standard protection. There's something wrong with people who say they aren't afraid," the photographer said in an interview with Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.