“Anja Niedringhaus began working as a freelance photographer at age 17 while still in high school. In 1990, she began working full-time as a photojournalist when she joined the European Pressphoto 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 November 2002, Niedringhaus moved to the Associated Press as a traveling photographer. She was the only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography. Today, Niedringhaus is regularly on the road covering major events for the AP when not working from her base in Switzerland”. – The Associated Press

UPDATED: Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, 48, was killed when an Afghan policeman opened fire while she and a reporter were covering the election there, on April 4, 2014. R.I.P...

AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus laughs as she attends a swimming event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, August 21, 2004. Niedringhaus, a veteran Associated Press photographer who had covered wars around the world was shot dead and another reporter was wounded on April 4, 2014 when an Afghan policeman opened fire on them in eastern Afghanistan, the news agency said. (Photo by Reuters/Staff)

A U.S. Marine cries during the memorial service for 31 killed U.S. servicemen at Camp Korean Village, near Rutbah, western Iraq, February 2, 2005. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Monday, September 14, 2009 ile photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus,an Afghan boy looks on as German ISAF soldiers prepare a temporary camp to overnight during a long term patrol in the mountainous region of Feyzabad, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Tuesday, September 15, 2009 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, an Afghan man on his donkey follows a convoy of German ISAF soldiers patrolling Yaftal E Sofla, in the mountainous region of Feyzabad, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Sunday, March 26, 2006 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, Palestinians enjoy a ride at an amusement park outside Gaza City. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Wednesday, March 12, 2014 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, Pakistani bank notes covered in blood are displayed on the body of a dead suicide bomber after police found them in his pocket after an attack on the former Afghan intelligence headquarters, in the center of Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

An Afghan girl reacts as she arrives with her mother for treatment in the local hospital of Feyzabad, on September 28, 2008. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

German ISAF soldiers secure an airfield next to a destroyed passenger plane left by the Russians in Kunduz on September 19, 2008. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

An Afghan refugee girl reacts after another child stole her food voucher while she was queuing in front a truck organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, on March 4, 2012. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

A U.S. soldier arrives to the scene where a suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

A US Marine goes to to pick up food supplies after they were dropped off by small parachutes from a plane outside Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, June 9, 2011. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

An Israeli soldier jumps off an armored vehicle carrying a flag of Israel's 60th anniversary as he celebrates with his unit their return from the Gaza Strip on the Israeli side of the border, Jan. 16, 2009. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Friday, November 1, 2013 file photo, an Afghan man with his five children on his motorbike pays money to enter a park in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Sunday, September 20, 2009 file photo, an Afghan boy holds a toy gun as he enjoys a ride with others on a merry-go-round to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr festival, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Saturday, September 11, 2010 file photo, a Canadian soldier with the 1st RCR Battle Group, The Royal Canadian Regiment, chases a chicken seconds before he and his unit were attacked by grenades shot over the wall during a patrol in Salavat, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

This photograph is one in a portfolio of twenty taken by eleven different Associated Press photographers throughout 2004 in Iraq. A U.S. Marine of the 1st Division carries a mascot for good luck in his backpack as his unit pushed further into the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, Sunday, November 14, 2004. The Associated Press won a Pulitzer prize in breaking news photography for the series of pictures of bloody combat in Iraq. The award was the AP's 48th Pulitzer. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this May 15, 2013 file photo, an Afghan National Police officer mans a checkpoint in the outskirts of Maidan Shahr, Wardak province, Afghanistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Saturday, November 9, 2013 photo, an Afghan drug addict smokes opium in a foul smelling river bed in the center of Kabul. More than 1 million Afghans are addicts, living in squalor in its cities, sleeping on the street, in garbage-filled dried river beds reeking of human waste. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

An Afghan girl tries to peer through the holes of her burqa as she plays with other children in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 7, 2013. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

A Libyan rebel, draped in the old Libyan flag, prays at the entrance to the city of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Saturday, March 26, 2011. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

Lance Cpl. Blas Trevino, center, of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, shouts out as he is rescued onto a medevac helicopter from the U.S. Army's Task Force Lift “Dust Off”, Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment after he got shot in the stomach outside Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Saturday, June 11, 2011. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

A German soldier lifts weights at his combat outpost in Char Darah, outisde Kunduz, Afghanistan, Saturday, September 17, 2011. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Saturday, June 4, 2011 photo, injured United States Marine Cpl. Burness Britt reacts after being lifted onto a medevac helicopter from the U.S. Army's Task Force Lift “Dust Off”, Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment. Britt was wounded in an IED strike near Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this August 5, 2012 file photo, South Africa's Oscar Pistorius starts in the men's 400-meter semifinal during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

An Afghan girl takes a short cut through a streaming river on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

Pakistani children peek under a curtain that hides the residence inside a home of a poor neighborhood in Mingora, in the Swat Valley, Pakistan, Wednesday, November 14, 2012. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

Afghan day laborer Zekrullah, 23, takes a break after preparing kilns to fire the bricks at a brick kiln factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, November 7, 2013. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

An Afghan National Army soldier carries his rockets while on patrol in Logar province, east Afghanistan, Thursday, May 17, 2012. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this November 15, 2012 photo, a young girl reaches out to greet a Pakistani policeman securing the road outside Kainat Riaz's home in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this photo taken Saturday, September 11, 2010, an Afghan boy on a donkey reacts as Canadian soldiers with the 1st RCR Battle Group, The Royal Canadian Regiment, patrol in Salavat, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Minutes later the soldiers were attacked by grenades while leaving the village. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

In this Wednesday, May 8, 2013 photo, Afghan Army soldiers gather at a military training facility in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

An Afghan girl greets a Canadian soldier with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, patroling Salavat, Panjwayi district, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, May 31, 2010. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

A Libyan rebel urges people to leave, as shelling from Gadhafi's forces started landing on the frontline outside of Bin Jawaad, 150 km east of Sirte, central Libya, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

An Afghan boy flies his kite on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, May 13, 2013. (Photo by Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo)

Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus in Rome in April 2005. Niedringhaus, 48, was killed and an AP reporter wounded April 4, 2014, when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan. Niedringhaus, an internationally acclaimed German photographer, was killed instantly, according to an AP Television freelancer who saw the shooting. Kathy Gannon, the reporter, was wounded twice and is in stable condition. (Photo by Peter Dejong/AP Photo)