Afghanistan daily life by Anja Niedringhaus
Associated Press photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus is the only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Iraq War.That same year she was awarded the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism prize.
Niedringhaus began full-time work as a photojournalist in 1990 when she joined the EuropeanPressphoto Agency in Frankfurt, Germany. As EPA's Chief Photographer she spent the first ten years of her career covering the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
In 2001, Niedringhaus photographed the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and then traveled to Afghanistan, where she spent three months covering the fall of the Taliban.
In 2002, she joined Associated Press, for whom she has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip, Israel, Kuwait and Turkey.
In 2006, Niedringhaus was awarded a prestigious Nieman fellowship at Harvard University. She was part of the 69th class of Nieman Fellows where she studied culture, history, religion and the issues of gender in the Middle East and their impact on the development of foreign policy in the United States and other Western countries.
