About the German photographer, Anja NIEDRINGHAUS (1965-2014)

"If I don't photograph it, it won't be known." (© Anja NIEDRINGHAUS)
Anja NIEDRINGHAUS was a German photojournalist who told complex stories in individual photographs from war zones in Yugoslavia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Libya and Iraq. She received the Pulitzer Prize and other awards. In 2014, she was shot dead the day before the presidential election in Afghanistan.
Anja NIEDRINGHAUS' work has been exhibited widely, most recently in a special exhibition marking the fifth anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize winner's death, more than 80 large-format photographs were on view at the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne from late March to June 30, 2019; it was the first posthumous retrospective of its kind.

Photo books by and on the work of Anja NIEDRINGHAUS

'Anja Niedringhaus. Fotografien' (2001); 'At War' (2014); 'Woman War Photographers: From Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus' (2019, by Beckmann/Korn); 'Anja Niedringhaus. Bilderkriegerin' (2019)

Photo volume At War' by Anja NIEDRINGHAUS shows life in wartime, exhausted soldiers, desperate prisoners, but also laughter and joie de vivre in the midst of suffering. The texts as well as image-theoretical considerations make it an important document.
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'Anja Niedringhaus. Bilderkriegerin' accompanied an exhibition held to mark the anniversary of her Pulitzer Prize, and features photographs by the photographer, who was murdered in 2014, as enduring documents of human suffering and the will to survive.
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Eight remarkable women war photographers who have documented crises and combat around the world for the past eighty years: Lee MILLER, Catherine LEROY, Susan MEISELAS, Anja NIEDRINGHAUS, Carolyn COLE, Françoise DEMULDER, Christine SPENGLER, and Gerda TARO
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