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Anja Niedringhaus (born 1965) is a German photojournalist working for the Associated Press based out of Geneva, Switzerland. She began working as a freelance photographer at age 17 while still in high school. In 1989, while studying German Literature, Philosophy and Journalism at the Goerg-August University in Goettingen, Germany, she covered the collapse of the Berlin Wall for the German newspaper Goettinger Tageblatt. Niedringhaus began full-time work as a photojournalist in 1990 when she joined the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) in Frankfurt, Germany. As EPA's Chief Photographer she covered the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and others wars in the former Yugoslavia in the first ten years of her career. In 2001, Niedringhaus photographed the aftermath of September 11 in New York City for EPA. Shortly after that, she traveled to Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul, where she spent three months covering the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan. In 2002 she joined the Associated Press, much of her work since then has taken her to Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East, where she has reported on events in the Gaza Strip, Israel, Kuwait and Turkey. Niedringhaus was the only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for their coverage from Iraq. The same year she was as well awarded with the Courage in Journalism prize from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF). In 2006 Anja Niedringhaus was named Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, Germany and in galleries and museums in Berlin, Graz and London.