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TIME’s Top 10 Photos of 2023

What makes a photograph memorable? This tangled question has been passed around the TIME Photo Department for decades. The truth is, the answer is ever changing. As we grow into each new era of photography...

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TIME's Best Photos of 2023

The most striking, influential, and surprising photographs published by TIME in 2023.

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9 Photographers Reflect on Covering the War in Ukraine

TIME speaks to photojournalists on their work the past year—and the moments that have stayed with them.

By Sanya Mansoor and TIME Photo Department

TIME's Top 10 Photos of 2022

Each year recently has felt tumultuous, marked by some moments of joy but also much upheaval and tragedy. This year brought new conflicts and celebrations, but it was no less turbulent. We encountered the start...

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TIME's 20 Best Photobooks of 2022

This year, the devastating power of photography pervaded our lives—depictions of war in Ukraine, natural disasters caused by climate change, and the memorial of a monarch were everywhere we looked. But where many of those...

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TIME's Best Portraits of 2022

Our lives are part of a greater whole, and that story is best told in faces, as captured in these TIME portraits from 2022

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TIME's Best Photojournalism of 2022

The most striking, influential, and surprising photojournalism published by TIME in 2022, selected by TIME's photo editors.

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TIME's Top 100 Photos of 2022

It’s different this time.That was the sentiment humming in the background, and sometimes roaring quite loudly, throughout 2022. It’s what was said when young people started rising up in the streets of Iran in support...

By TIME Photo Department

5 Ukrainian Photographers Document the War

They have been documenting the death and destruction caused by Russia’s invasion for weeks

By Sanya Mansoor and TIME Photo Department

Photographs of Ukraine Under Attack

After months of escalating tensions, Russia launched a broad military attack on neighboring Ukraine in the early hours of Feb. 24. In a televised speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had ordered a “special...

By TIME Photo Department and Eloise Barry

TIME’s Top 10 Photos of 2021

The images, and the people who made them, show us the power of great photography

By TIME Photo Department

TIME's 20 Best Photobooks of 2021

In a year when the pandemic continued to make the world feel unsteady and social media a touch ephemeral, this selection of books offers a way to be transported by visual art in the palm...

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TIME's Best Photojournalism of 2021

These are the images that best define a year in which momentum was hard to detect

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TIME's Top 100 Photos of 2021

In a time of transition and uncertainty, these images defined the year

By TIME Photo Department

Photographs Inside the Chaos at the Capitol

A mob whipped up by the President stormed police lines, smashed windows and broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to block lawmakers from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory. The violent...

By Vera Bergengruen and TIME Photo Department

TIME's Top 10 Photos of 2020

These images acknowledge not just where we’ve been, but who we are

By TIME Photo Department

TIME's Best Photojournalism of 2020

In news events chronicled by TIME photographers across the year, the invisible forces pushing us apart become visible: The plastic barriers built and the Tyvek worn to separate a pathogen from a human being. The...

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TIME Photographers Reflect on a Long Election Week

It felt like the country held its breath over four long days, anxiously awaiting one of the presidential candidates’ electoral votes to reach 270. On the morning of Nov. 7, after the Associated Press finally...

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TIME's Best Photojournalism of 2019

It was in the second decade of the 21st Century that the camera completed its big move — from around the neck of a person who had set out to take pictures, to the pocket...

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TIME's 30 Best Photobooks of 2019

In 2019, creativity in photobook publishing continued to flourish with outstanding works from an international group of independent and established publishers. This list, chosen by TIME’s photography staff, celebrates any type of book driven by...

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