donderdag, oktober 27, 2005
Anja Niedringhaus wint Courage in Journalism Award
Anja Niedringhaus, an Associated Press war photographer from Germany, received a Courage in Journalism Award Tuesday from the International Women's Media Foundation.
Niedringhaus, 40, who has worked on the front lines covering every major conflict from the Balkans in the 1990s to the war in Iraq, was blown out of a car by a grenade while caught in crossfire in 2002 in Kosovo in 1998 and was part of a group mistakenly bombed by NATO forces at the Albania-Kosovo border crossing. She was the only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.
In her acceptance speech, Niedringhaus said she was inspired to see the world by a globe her grandfather gave her when she was 7-years-old and chose to photograph conflicts to give people a glimpse of what is going on, especially the suffering.
"The real difficulties and the real courage belong to those who are subjected against their will to conflicts," she said. "I do my job simply to report people's courage with my camera and with my heart."
Lees meer bij de International Women’s Media Foundation.
Niedringhaus, 40, who has worked on the front lines covering every major conflict from the Balkans in the 1990s to the war in Iraq, was blown out of a car by a grenade while caught in crossfire in 2002 in Kosovo in 1998 and was part of a group mistakenly bombed by NATO forces at the Albania-Kosovo border crossing. She was the only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.
In her acceptance speech, Niedringhaus said she was inspired to see the world by a globe her grandfather gave her when she was 7-years-old and chose to photograph conflicts to give people a glimpse of what is going on, especially the suffering.
"The real difficulties and the real courage belong to those who are subjected against their will to conflicts," she said. "I do my job simply to report people's courage with my camera and with my heart."
Lees meer bij de International Women’s Media Foundation.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 00:26
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