Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer with Reuters news agency, was killed on Friday covering fighting between Afghan security forces and the Taliban near a border crossing with Pakistan.

Afghan forces were fighting to retake Spin Boldak when Siddiqui and a senior officer were killed in Taliban crossfire.

Siddiqui covered war zones and crises from Iraq to Hong Kong to Nepal.

“Ninety percent of the photography I have learnt has come from experimentation in the field,” he once wrote. “What I enjoy most is capturing the human face of a breaking story. I shoot for the common man who wants to see and feel a story from a place where he can't be present himself.”

A native of New Delhi, Siddiqui, 38, is survived by his wife Rike and two young children.

Here is some of the celebrated photographer's best work from the past decade:

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Header image: The grounds are prepared for mass cremation of coronavirus victims in New Delhi, India, April 28, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. — Reuters/Danish Siddiqui