The Year in Photos 2020

How will we remember this pivotal year in human history? Many of us won’t want to, but in doing so we risk repeating what got us into this mess in the first place. Photography is always a powerful way to document events and this year was particularly suited to it: these photos vividly tell the story of 2020. You can check out many more of them here:

• In Focus at The Atlantic: 2020 in Photos (part 2, part 3), Top 25 News Photos of 2020, Hopeful Images From 2020.
• CNN: 2020: The Year in Pictures.
• Time: Top 100 Photos of 2020.
• Reuters: Pictures of the Year 2020.
• NY Times: 2020: The Year in Pictures.
• The New Yorker: Photography in a Year of Crisis.
• Associated Press: In 2020, AP Photographers Captured a World in Distress.

The embedded photos above, from top to bottom: Black Lives Matter protests by Dai Sugano, hospital staff by Sarah Lawrence, Black Lives Matter protests by Matt Rourke, empty grocery shelves by Justin Sullivan, Black Lives Matter protests by David Dee Delgado, California wildfires by Noah Berger, Covid-19 vaccine by Graeme Robertson.

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