This photo of Afghan commandos was taken last year by NPR's David Gilkey. The award-winning photographer and video editor was traveling in southern Afghanistan when he and fellow journalist Zabihullah Tamanna <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2F2016%2F06%2F05%2Fmedia%2Fnpr-photographer-david-gilkey-interpreter-killed-afghanistan%2F" target="_blank">were killed</a> on Sunday, June 5. Gilkey was 50 years old. "His photographs and videos were haunting in their beauty and poignant in their nuance," wrote <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2016%2F06%2F06%2F480866035%2Fremembering-photojournalist-david-gilkey" target="_blank" target="_blank">Ariel Zambelich,</a> an NPR colleague. "Every person and every scene was captured with care, moving beyond the news to the personal struggle and perseverance of the people who lived it."
This photo of Afghan commandos was taken last year by NPR's David Gilkey. The award-winning photographer and video editor was traveling in southern Afghanistan when he and fellow journalist Zabihullah Tamanna were killed on Sunday, June 5. Gilkey was 50 years old. "His photographs and videos were haunting in their beauty and poignant in their nuance," wrote Ariel Zambelich, an NPR colleague. "Every person and every scene was captured with care, moving beyond the news to the personal struggle and perseverance of the people who lived it."
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A man carrying a shotgun walks through a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, while trying to keep looters at bay in January 2010. A massive earthquake had devastated the country and left thousands dead. <a href="index.php?page=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DiZutq7Cvoe4" target="_blank" target="_blank">Talking about his work in Haiti,</a> Gilkey said: "It's not just reporting. It's not just taking pictures. It's, 'Do those visuals, do the stories, do they change somebody's mind enough to take action?' "
A man carrying a shotgun walks through a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, while trying to keep looters at bay in January 2010. A massive earthquake had devastated the country and left thousands dead. Talking about his work in Haiti, Gilkey said: "It's not just reporting. It's not just taking pictures. It's, 'Do those visuals, do the stories, do they change somebody's mind enough to take action?' "
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Alex Mertulus, 10, was one of the many Haitians displaced by the 2010 earthquake. During Gilkey's career, he also covered war in Iraq, the Ebola epidemic in Liberia and the end of apartheid in South Africa. "He was a master storyteller of all types and genres," CNN's Ivan Watson said. "Who else could come to a nonprofit radio organization like NPR and carve out a niche for award-winning photography?"
Alex Mertulus, 10, was one of the many Haitians displaced by the 2010 earthquake. During Gilkey's career, he also covered war in Iraq, the Ebola epidemic in Liberia and the end of apartheid in South Africa. "He was a master storyteller of all types and genres," CNN's Ivan Watson said. "Who else could come to a nonprofit radio organization like NPR and carve out a niche for award-winning photography?"
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Gilkey also focused his lens on U.S. service members such as Lance Cpl. Jake Romo, a Marine who lost both of his legs in Afghanistan in 2011.
Gilkey also focused his lens on U.S. service members such as Lance Cpl. Jake Romo, a Marine who lost both of his legs in Afghanistan in 2011.
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Children who live along the banks of India's Yamuna River hunt for coins and anything valuable they can collect. The waters are polluted with heavy metals, raw sewage and industrial waste, according to <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2016%2F05%2F11%2F477415686%2Fcan-indias-sacred-but-dead-yamuna-river-be-saved" target="_blank" target="_blank">an NPR report</a> earlier this year.
Children who live along the banks of India's Yamuna River hunt for coins and anything valuable they can collect. The waters are polluted with heavy metals, raw sewage and industrial waste, according to an NPR report earlier this year.
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A boy holds a toy in Bentiu, South Sudan, in May. More than 120,000 South Sudanese <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fsections%2Fgoatsandsoda%2F2016%2F05%2F25%2F478251493%2Ffive-days-and-five-nights-with-doctors-without-borders" target="_blank" target="_blank">have sought refuge</a> inside this U.N. compound.
A boy holds a toy in Bentiu, South Sudan, in May. More than 120,000 South Sudanese have sought refuge inside this U.N. compound.
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At the height of the Ebola epidemic, a worker puts the finishing touches on dividers that will separate patients at a community care center in Sierra Leone's Port Loko District.
At the height of the Ebola epidemic, a worker puts the finishing touches on dividers that will separate patients at a community care center in Sierra Leone's Port Loko District.
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Storm clouds pass above a wintry landscape on the shores of Russia's Lake Baikal in 2012. It is the world's largest and oldest lake and holds nearly 20% of the world's fresh water.
Storm clouds pass above a wintry landscape on the shores of Russia's Lake Baikal in 2012. It is the world's largest and oldest lake and holds nearly 20% of the world's fresh water.
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Health workers collect the body of a cholera victim in Petionville, Haiti, in February 2011.
Health workers collect the body of a cholera victim in Petionville, Haiti, in February 2011.
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A little girl jumps across a flooded field that contains sewage runoff from a camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 2010.
A little girl jumps across a flooded field that contains sewage runoff from a camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 2010.
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U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Anthony Espinoza wipes the salt and sweat out of his eyes at the end of a daylong patrol in Afghanistan in May 2011. Gilkey "was profoundly committed to coverage of both Afghanistan and Iraq," NPR head of news Michael Oreskes said. "He wanted to know what was happening to the people there. I think that's why he kept going back -- because he wanted to understand what was happening to the soldiers and civilians."
U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Anthony Espinoza wipes the salt and sweat out of his eyes at the end of a daylong patrol in Afghanistan in May 2011. Gilkey "was profoundly committed to coverage of both Afghanistan and Iraq," NPR head of news Michael Oreskes said. "He wanted to know what was happening to the people there. I think that's why he kept going back -- because he wanted to understand what was happening to the soldiers and civilians."
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