Anja Niedringhaus

Anja Niedringhaus (born 12 October 1965 in Höxter, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist from Germany. She was the only woman on a team of 11 Associated Press photographers awarded the prestigious journalism prize in 2005 for breaking news photography for their coverage of the war in Iraq. That same year she was awarded the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism prize.

Niedringhaus was born in 1965 and began working as a freelance photographer at age 17 while still in high school. In 1989, she covered the collapse of the Berlin Wall for the German newspaper Göttinger Tageblatt.

Niedringhaus began full-time work as a photojournalist in 1990 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 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 The 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. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest midcareer fellowship for journalists in the world. The fellowships are awarded to working journalists of accomplishment and promise for an academic year of study at the university.

Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, Germany, and in galleries and museums in elsewhere, including Graz, Austria.