Karsten Thielker, Pulitzer-winning AP photographer, dies

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 13, 1994 file photo, Rwandan refugees hold their hands up and ask for help from Belgian soldiers, who had come to a psychiatric hospital compound outside of Kigali. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 1995 file photo, chechens duck for cover as a Russian sniper takes a pot shot at a street market on the southern outskirts of Grozny, Chechnya. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, File)

FILE - In this Friday, July 2 1993 file photo, Italian U.N. soldiers transport their wounded comrades on top of a warrior tank to a military hospital in Mogadishu, as fighting between Somali gunmen and U.N. forces continues. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, file)

FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 2, 1995 file photo, U.S.President Bill Clinton reaches out to shake hands with soldiers of the Task Force Eagle, the Bosnia-bound 1st.Armoured Division, 2nd. Brigade at the Smith Barracks in Baumholder, Germany. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, file)

FILE - In this May 17, 1994, file photo, refugees who fled the ethnic bloodbath in neighboring Rwanda carry water containers back to their huts at the Benaco refugee camp in Tanzania, near the border with Rwanda. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, File)

FILE- In this Jan. 25, 1995 file photo, a Chechen sniper takes aim as a woman looks on after a Russian sniper took a pot shot at a street market on the southern outskirts of Grozny. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, file)

FILE - In this Saturday, Jan 20 1996 file photo, a Bosnian woman carries corn as a Bosnian soldier passes her in Lopare, a Bosnian former frontline village 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Tuzla. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP-Photo/Karsten Thielker, File)

FILE - July 10, 2016 file photo of photographer Karsten Thielker taken in Frankfurt, Germany. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (Frank Rumpenhorst/DPA via AP)

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan 7 1996 file photo, a Bosnian farmer guides his horses passing the base of the U.S. Alpha advance team of the 3/4 Cav. in Staric, a Bosnian village 40 kilometers (24 miles) south of Tuzla, as the deployment of U.S. forces into Bosnia continues. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, file)

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 4, 1995 file photo, two women sit on the shattered balcony of their previously destroyed apartment in Sarajevo's outskirts during a quiet day in the Bosnian capital. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, file)

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 1, 1995 file photo, youth dance under a giant German flag in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin during a parade marking the fifth anniversary of German unification. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020.(AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, file)

FILE - In this Saturday July 29, 1995 file photo, a Sarajevan woman walks past French United Nations soldiers preparing new barricades at a U.N. compound in Sarajevo, on a relatively peaceful day in the beseiged Bosnian capital. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, file)

FILE - In this April 20, 1993 file photo refugees of Srebrenica, evacuated a day before by U.N. helicopter, walk with their crutches to a nearby hospital in Tuzla. Four-hundred-sixty-nine refugees have been evacuated in a two-day airlift by U.N. forces. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, file)

FILE - In this May 7, 1993 file photo, Lance Cpl. Jason South of the 9/12 Lancers, part of the United Nations Protection Forces, (UNPF) peers from a torn canvas while on guard duty in Vitez, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Over 700 British soldiers are on duty in and around Vitez trying to keep the peace between warring Croat, Serb and Muslim forces. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Theilker, file)

FILE- In this Friday, Sept. 27, 1991 file photo, making use of road signs, striking miners shield against tear gas and lead hunting pellets thrown by policemen during violent clashes outside the Presidential palace in Bucharest. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, file)

FILE In this Thursday, Jan. 31, 1995 file photo, a Chechen looks towards a Russian checkpoint as he stands in front of the wreckage of a Russian armored personnel carrier that was destroyed in a clash with Chechen rebels and Russian troops at the west entrance of Samashki, a Chechen village 25 miles west of Grozny. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020.(AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, file)

FILE - In this Wednesday afternoon, April 28, 1993 file photo, a Bosnian soldier, ready to go to the frontline, wipes away the tears of his mother in front of a Muslim gravestone in Rhahic, a Bosnian town 43 miles north of Tuzla. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, file)

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 1995 file photo, a wounded Russian soldier, being evacuated with his comrades, look on, in a helicopter on his way out of Grozny, as the fighting in the Chechen capital continues. Karsten Thielker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning German photographer with The Associated Press who covered human suffering in conflict zones around the globe, has died. He was 54. Thielker died Oct. 3 in Berlin of esophageal cancer, his wife Janna Ressel said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker, file)