Anja Niedringhaus — ez-blitz.com

Anja Niedringhaus took this stunning picture of Palestinian schoolgirls enjoying a ride at an amusement park outside Gaza City in March 2006.
She was an Associated Press photographer for over 25 years, documenting from conflict zones in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia and beyond.
Amidst death and danger, she maintained a clear eye and warm heart for humanity and the lives of the ordinary people that she cared about deeply.

In April 2014, Anja was shot and killed by a police officer in Afghanistan, leaving behind a body of work that won awards and broke hearts.

On the AP website, I read the words “Anja Niedringhaus faced down some of the world's greatest dangers and had one of the world's loudest and most infectious laughs.”
I like that.

Thank you, Anja- may you rest in peace and loud laughter.

Palestinian schoolgirls enjoy a ride at an amusement park outside Gaza City, March 26, 2006.

Lance Cpl. Blas Trevino of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, clinches onto his Rosary as he's rescued onto a medevac helicopter after getting shot in the stomach near Sangin, Afghanistan, June 11, 2011.

An Afghan boy makes a face as Canadian soldiers with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment and Afghan Army soldiers patrol the village of Salavat in the Panjwayi district, June 1, 2010.

An Afghan girl reacts as she arrives with her mother for treatment in the local hospital of Feyzabad, September 28, 2008.

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, April 7, 2013.

An Afghan woman holds her newly born baby wrapped in her burqa as she waits to get in line to try on a new burqa in a shop in the old town of Kabul, April 11, 2013.

Woman tries on a burka in Kabul's old city, April 2013.

An Afghan woman peers through a window where women line up to have their picture taken to register for the upcoming presidential elections in a school in Kabul, March 18, 2014.

An Afghan nomad kisses his young daughter while watching his herd in Marjah, Helmand province, October 20, 2012.

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, September 20, 2009.

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, March 4, 2012.

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, November 7, 2013.

An Afghan National Police officer at a checkpoint in the outskirts of Maidan Shahr, Wardak province, Afghanistan, May 15, 2013.

An Afghan girl crosses a cemetary in the outskirts of Kabul, November 25, 2009.

An Afghan girl takes a short cut through a streaming river on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, May 15, 2013.

A young girl reaches out to a Pakistani policeman in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. November 15, 2012.

A U.S. Marine carrying a good luck mascot in western Fallujah, Iraq, November 14, 2004.

Afghan children peer through a fence that surrounds a swimming pool on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, May 2013.

A young girl peeks out from the barred entrance to the Khushal School for Girls in Mingora, Swat Valley, November 15, 2012.

Afghan child flying a kite in the mountains outside Kabul, May 2013.

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