Anja Niedringhaus | 1965 - 2014

In a photo taken June 4, 2011, by Anja Niedringhaus, injured U.S. Marine Cpl. Burness Britt reacts after being lifted onto a medevac helicopter in Afghanistan. (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

April 4, 2014 2:50 PM PT

Anja Niedringhaus, the German photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the Iraq War, was shot dead by a policeman while on assignment in Afghanistan. She was 48.

In a May 13, 2013, image taken by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, an Afghan boy flies his kite on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan. (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

In an image shot Christmas Eve, 2002, by Anja Niedringhaus, hundreds of U.S. Marines gather at Camp Commando in the Kuwait desert for a visit by Santa Claus. “Anja was a vibrant, dynamic journalist well-loved for her insightful photographs, her warm heart and joy for life,” said AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll. “We are heartbroken at her loss.” (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

A March 30, 2014, photograph by Anja Niedringhaus shows a carpet seller in Kabul, Afghanistan, holding up a framed carpet depicting Afghan President Hamid Karzai. (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

An Afghan man with his five children on his motorbike pays to enter a park in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, in a November 2013 photograph by Anja Niedringhaus. The photographer, who has been killed in Afghanistan, had been an Associated Press staff photographer since 2002. (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

In the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan, a woman waits in a changing room to try out a new burka. The photograph was shot April 11, 2013, by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who has been killed in Afghanistan. AP reporter Kathy Gannon, who was with her, was injured in the shooting attack. “Anja and Kathy together have spent years in Afghanistan covering the conflict and the people there,” said AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll. (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

Serena Williams reacts after winning a third round women’s singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, in a June 30, 2012, image shot by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus. (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

Anja Niedringhaus’ photograph captures Jamaica’s Usain Bolt crossing the finish line to win the gold in the men’s 200-meter final at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

A U.S. Marine cries during the memorial service for 31 U.S. servicemen killed in Iraq. The image was captured at Camp Korean Village in western Iraq, on Feb. 2, 2005. Anja Niedringhaus shared in Associated Press’ 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography from Iraq, and the same year received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation. (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

In a photograph shot March 12, 2014, by Anja Niedringhaus, Pakistani bank notes covered in blood are displayed on the body of a suicide bomber. Police found the notes in the bomber’s pocket after his attack on the former Afghan intelligence headquarters in the center of Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Anja Niedringhaus / Associated Press)

Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, shown in 2005 in Rome, was killed and an AP reporter was wounded when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan. Niedringhaus, an internationally acclaimed German photographer, was 48 years old. (Peter Dejong / Associated Press)