Unforgettable Pictures By The Award-Winning Photographer Killed In Afghanistan

Anja Niedringhaus, a critically acclaimed photographer for the Associated Press, was fatally shot in Afghanistan. She had covered everything from war to sporting events.

Award-winning and veteran war photographer Anja Niedringhaus was fatally shot by an Afghan police officer on Friday, April 4, while reporting for the AP in Eastern Afghanistan.

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"She gave herself to the subjects of her lens, and gave her talents to the world, with images of wars' unwitting victims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia and beyond," the AP said in an obituary. Niedringhaus, 48 and originally from Germany, was the latest victim of the rising violence in Afghanistan ahead of Saturday's presidential elections. Of her work she told the New York Times in 2011, "I don't believe conflicts have changed since 9/11 other than to become more frequent and protracted. But the essence of the conflict is the same — two sides fighting for territory, for power, for ideologies. And in the middle is the population who is suffering."

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

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

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

A U.S. Marine cries during a memorial service for 31 U.S. servicemen killed near Rutbah, western Iraq. Feb. 2, 2005.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

Palestinians at an amusement park outside Gaza City. March 26, 2006.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

The Men's Singles final at Wimbledon, England. July 8, 2007.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

A woman in New York City reacts to news that Barack Obama has been elected president. Nov. 4, 2008.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

An Israeli soldier celebrates with his unit after their return from the Gaza Strip. Jan. 16, 2009.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

An Afghan follows a convoy of German soldiers in the mountainous region of Feyzabad, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan. Sept. 15, 2009.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

An Afghan boy reacts to passing Canadian soldiers. Sept. 11, 2010.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

A Canadian soldier chases a chicken seconds before he and his unit were attacked by grenades in Salavat, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Sept. 11, 2010.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

A German soldier lifts weights at his outpost in Char Darah, outside Kunduz, Afghanistan. Sept, 17, 2011.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

A Libyan rebel east of Sirte, central Libya, as Ghadafi forces begin to shell the area. March 29, 2011.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

A US Marine in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan. June 9, 2011.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

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

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

An Afghan man with his five children pays money to enter a park in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. Nov. 1, 2013.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

An Afghan day laborer registers for the 2014 the upcoming presidential election. Nov 6, 2013.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

Afghan day laborer Zekrullah, 23, takes a break on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Nov 7, 2013.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

Afghan boys study in a village school in Budyali, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. March 19, 2013.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

Hundreds of Afghans at the Kart-e Sakhi mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. March 21, 2013.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

An Afghan woman waits in a changing room to try out a new Burqa, in the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan. April 11, 2013.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

An Afghan boy flies his kite on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan. May 13, 2013.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

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

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

Afghan men pray at the Eid Gah mosque, one of Afghanistan's largest, in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. Oct. 30, 2013.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

A swimming pool overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan. May 17, 2013.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

An election poster urging people to vote in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. March 12, 2014

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

Afghan men mourn the death of late Afghan Vice President Field Marshal Mohammed Qasim Fahim in Kabul, Afghanistan. March 10, 2014.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

Bloodied Pakistani bank notes on the body of a dead suicide bomber in Kandahar, Afghanistan. March 12, 2014.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File

An Afghan carpet seller holds a framed carpet with the face of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan. March 30, 2014.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

Afghan lawmaker Hamida Ahmadzai inside the Afghan parliament in Kabul, Afghanistan. March 26, 2014.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

A supporter for presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadza at an election campaign rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday. April 1, 2014.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

An Afghan soldier and a police man waiting for their registration cards for the upcoming presidential elections. April 1, 2014.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

Afghan election workers break for tea outside the Independent Election Commission (IEC) office in Khost, eastern Afghanistan. April 3, 2014.