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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.