A biography for Anja Niedringhaushasn’t been written yet.
“For me, the brand of the camera is not the most important thing. I think you can take good pictures with the camera on your phone.”
“I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.”
“I think to be afraid is very important. It's to save your life, too. And over the years, each of us, and all my colleagues, we developed certain antennas. I can't really say why I don't want to go right or left. It's a feeling, and I trust mostly my feelings.”
“In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.”
“Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.”