Remembering the NPR photographer killed in Afghanistan
David Gilkey, a veteran news photographer and video editor for National Public Radio (NPR), and NPR's Afghan interpreter and fellow journalist, Zabihullah Tamanna, were killed while on assignment in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, June 5, 2016.
Gilkey and Tamanna were traveling with an Afghan army unit near Marjah in Helmand province when the convoy came under fire and their vehicle was struck, the network's spokeswoman, Isabel Lara, said in a statement. Two other NPR journalists, Tom Bowman and producer Monika Evstatieva, were traveling with them and were not hurt.
Gilkey, an award-winning photographer, had covered conflict and war in Iraq and Afghanistan since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Washington and New York. He worked nationally and internationally on a wide range of stories, always committed to showing the daily human struggle.
Click through to see some of Gilkey's images.
Bravo Company's Pvt. Cody Lee Ensley walks through the safety of the gates at an American base after a daylong fierce attack by insurgents near Payendi.
From the story "Signs Of Traction In U.S. Fight Against Afghan Taliban," 2010.
Doctors without Borders in South Sudan
Gilkey joined NPR in 2007. His work was recognized with numerous awards, including the prestigious George Polk Award and a national Emmy. The White House News Photographers Association named Gilkey their Still Photographer of the Year in 2011. In 2015, he became the first multimedia journalist to receive the Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of international breaking news, military conflicts and natural disasters.
People stand in line for food at the U.N. Protection of Civilians site near Bentiu, South Sudan. Over 120,000 people live at the site, the biggest in the country.
From the story "Five Days And Five Nights With Doctors Without Borders," 2016.
Trans-SIberian Railway
Gilkey, NPR reporter David Greene and producer Laura Krantz boarded the Trans-Siberian Railway in Moscow and took two weeks to make their way to the Pacific Ocean port city of Vladivostok.
From the story "Russia By Rail: A View From Russia's Trans-Siberian Railroad," 2012.
Haiti earthquake
From the story "Images Of Haiti Days After The Earthquake, And Now," 2011.
Reindeer in Alaska
Velvet Eyes -- a pet reindeer belonging to Carl Emmons -- stands in the back of a pickup truck outside a market and gas station in Nome, Alaska.
From the story "Dashing Through The Snow ... With A Reindeer In A Pickup Truck," 2013.
Haiti earthquake
From the story "Images Of Haiti Days After The Earthquake, And Now," 2011.
Military veterans
According to NPR, Gilkey felt especially close to U.S. servicemen and women and took every chance he had to tell their stories.
U.S. military veterans Marcus Bennett (from top, left to right), Henry Addington, Melinda Baca and Fred E. Parks Jr. and his wife, Jessica.
From the story "What Do Homeless Vets Look Like," 2014.
Wounded Marines
Liam, 2, accompanies his dad, Jake Romo, during rehab at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego. Romo, 22, lost both his legs while serving with the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Sangin, Afghanistan.
From the story "For Wounded Marines, The Long, Hard Road Of Rehab," 2011.
Poppy fields in Afghanistan
A girl stands in the middle of a poppy field as Marines pass by on patrol.
From the story "In Afghanistan, Flowers Call The Shots," 2011.
Afghanistan
Afghan president Hamid Karzai held a rally in a remote village, where he struck a deal with an influential religious leader. Thousands gathered for the campaign event.
From the story "Afghan President Karzai Rallies Support," 2009.
Syrian refugees
Omar Al-Awad holds his daughter as they walk home in Toledo, Ohio, where they were recently resettled after fleeing Syria and living in a Jordanian refugee camp.
From the story "Among The Lucky Few: Syrian Family Rebuilds In America's Heartland," 2015.
Veteran
Lance Cpl. Anthony Espinoza wipes the salt and sweat out of his eyes at the end of a daylong patrol. The 100-degree temperatures and humidity of the flooded farm fields make walking and patrolling in the area a daily battle.
From the story "In Afghanistan, Flowers Call The Shots"
Election in Afghanistan
Local election officials escort donkeys carrying election materials on the way to the village of Quali Kuana in Badakhshan province in Afghanistan.
From the story "Donkeys Deliver The Vote To Rural Afghanistan," 2009.
Ebola in Sierra Leone
Baby Sesay, a traditional healer in Sierra Leone, treated a child who later died, apparently of Ebola, and then became sick herself and went to a care center.
From the story "An NPR Photographer Looks Ebola In The Eye," 2014.
India
Children who live along the banks of the Yamuna River in ramshackle huts hunt for coins and anything valuable they can collect. The waters are polluted with heavy metals, raw sewage and industrial waste, but they are also a lifeline for scavenging families.
From the story "Can India's Sacred But 'Dead' Yamuna River Be Saved?"
Ebola
Health workers collect the body of a cholera victim in Petionville, Haiti.
David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna
David Gilkey, 50, (right) and Zabihullah Tamanna, 38, (left), were killed while on assignment in southern Afghanistan on June 5, 2016. Gilkey had worked for NPR since 2007. Tamanna was a freelancer who often worked for the media organization.
Gilkey: "It's not just reporting. It's not just taking pictures," he said about the work he did in Haiti. "It's, 'Do those visuals, do the stories, do they change somebody's mind enough to take action?'
"So if we're doing our part, it gets people to do their part. Hopefully."
Twenty-seven journalists have been killed in Afghanistan since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, not counting Gilkey and Tamanna. They include Anja Niedringhaus, a photographer for The Associated Press who was shot dead in 2014 while covering the national elections for president and provincial councils. AP special correspondent for the region, Kathy Gannon, was also in the car and wounded in the attack.