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Photos Show Miraculous Survival Amid Devastating Turkey Earthquakes
By Simmone Shah and Photo editing by Katherine Pomerantz
The History of the Boeing 747 in Photos
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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...
By TIME Photo Department
December 21, 2022
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
By TIME Photo Department
December 20, 2022
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...
By TIME Photo Department
November 23, 2022
Pakistan’s Catastrophic Floods Captured in Photos
Photographer Hassaan Gondal spent three days capturing the devastation and destruction in Sindh, Pakistan's worst affected province.
By Sanya Mansoor
September 22, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II’s Funeral in Photos
It was the first time in history that cameras were allowed to record inside the funeral of a British monarch, capturing the impressive formalities and gravity of the day
By Photo editing by Eli Cohen and Text by Julia Zorthian
September 19, 2022
Scenes of Mourning After the Queen's Death
People around the world have been paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.
By Charlie Campbell/Edinburgh
September 9, 2022
The Oak Fire Near Yosemite Is One of California's Most Unpredictable Blazes Yet
A fast-moving wildfire in near Yosemite National Park in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains has engulfed nearly 19,000 acres. It was sparked July 22, and in just three days, it charred more than...
By Julia Zorthian and Kim Bubello
July 27, 2022
'Some Part of Their Youth Definitely Got Stolen.' Photos of Growing Up Amid Ukraine's War
German photographer Fabian Ritter spent three weeks profiling young people in Kyiv Oblast
By Charlie Campbell
June 22, 2022
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
April 15, 2022
A Ukrainian Photographer Documents the Invasion in Kyiv
Over the past eight years, he has photographed many aspects of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
By Simon Shuster
March 17, 2022
Photos: Ukrainian Citizens Volunteer to Defend to Fight Russia
Members of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces are an “integral part” of the resistance, says Olena Prokopenko, a German Marshall Fund visiting fellow
By Kim Bubello and Chad de Guzman
March 3, 2022
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
February 24, 2022
A Photographic Diary of One Man's Struggle with Mental Illness
In the summer of 1984, photographer Arlene Gottfried met a man who called himself Midnight at a Lower East Side nightclub, where he was dancing. He invited her out the next night to see him...
By Paul Moakley
February 14, 2022
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
December 27, 2021
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...
By TIME Photo Department
December 22, 2021
TIME's Best Photojournalism of 2021
These are the images that best define a year in which momentum was hard to detect
By TIME Photo Department
December 17, 2021
TIME's Best Portraits of 2021
Faces always tell a story, often a more nuanced and complete one than words can convey. The portraits TIME has commissioned over the past year speak volumes about where we’ve been and what we’ve been...
By TIME Staff
December 16, 2021
Portraits of the Global BTS Fandom
Photographer Hannah Yoon captured fans of the band from around the world
November 24, 2021
TIME's Top 100 Photos of 2021
In a time of transition and uncertainty, these images defined the year
By TIME Photo Department
November 24, 2021
The 'Safe Supply Movement Aims to Curb Drug Overdose Deaths
On a morning Zoom call, a group of Canadian mothers give their full attention to a young man from the Drug User Liberation Front. At 26, Jeremy Kalicum is the age some of their kids...
By Paul Moakley
October 25, 2021
The City That Endures
Those of us who stayed stuck around, through 9/11 or the COVID-19 pandemic, did so expressly to preserve the New York we knew
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 7, 2021
‘Here We Can Express Ourselves With Freedom.’ In Puerto Rico, A Trans Collective Is Reimagining Family Values
Among the rocks of their Caribbean archipelago, a group of trans artists and creatives in Puerto Rico have found their safe port. It is a harbor offering them safety and affirmation amid choppy waters. Both...
By Alejandra Rosa
June 29, 2021
Can Barcelona Fix Its Love-Hate Relationship With Tourists After the Pandemic?
Before last year, Martí Cusó didn’t like to linger in the streets of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, the neighborhood where he has lived all his life. It was impossible to sit on a bench or play...
By Ciara Nugent
June 9, 2021
A Mother Speaks Out About Opioid Stigma and The Pain Of Losing Her Son
Four years ago, the stories of a young man named Billy with his mother Kristina and stepfather John Barboza appeared in The Opioid Diaries, a special issue of TIME calling attention to the dire rise...
By Kristina Barboza and Paul Moakley
May 7, 2021
'There's No Easy Way Out of This.' How Anti-Government Protests in Colombia Escalated into Deadly Clashes with Police
Scenes from the protests over inequality that have been raging in cities across the country since April 28
By Ciara Nugent
May 7, 2021
The Invisible Labor Inside America's Lactation Rooms
In a photo series and accompanying documentary, Corinne Botz goes inside over 30 American lactation facilities and makeshift spaces for lactating mothers
By Mathilde Cohen
May 7, 2021
How the World's Most Prevalent COVID-19 Vaccine Is Made
Behind the scenes at the German facilities making COVID-19 vaccines for the world
By Alice Park and Aryn Baker/Marburg, Germany
April 19, 2021
Delivery Drivers in Latin America Fight for Fair Treatment
'No one is looking out for us'
By Ciara Nugent
April 10, 2021
Why Deaths Among America's Homeless Are Soaring
When West Virginia declared a state of emergency to arrest the coronavirus, the social network that aids the homeless froze along with everything else. Charities that offered daily meals and warming stations shut down. Volunteers,...
By Paul Moakley
April 3, 2021
A Photographer's Unflinching Gaze on The War on Terror's Consequences
Come September, the U.S. war on terror will be 20 years old. Many Americans enjoy the luxury of being detached from that fact, but for the hundreds of thousands of people who served in combat,...
By W.J. Hennigan
March 22, 2021
How a Groundbreaking Book Helped a Generation of Lesbians See Themselves in the 1970s
Photographer and activist JEB (Joan E. Biren) reflects on her groundbreaking photo book ‘Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians’
By Paul Moakley
February 13, 2021
Photographs From the Inauguration
The day projected twin images of a nation struggling with chaos and an Administration aiming for normalcy
By Abigail Abrams
January 20, 2021
A Photographer's Diary of 12 Months in Trump's America
It would be too much to say that if you’ve seen one Trump rally you’ve seen them all. But “they all follow a predictable pattern,” says Peter van Agtmael, who has been attending them since...
By Peter van Agtmael and Karl Vick
January 19, 2021
A Photographer’s View Inside the Capitol
When a mob incited by President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, photographer Christopher Lee, on assignment for TIME, followed the rioters inside to document their destruction. The day, which started with the...
By Abigail Abrams
January 7, 2021
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
January 6, 2021
TIME's Top 10 Photos of 2020
These images acknowledge not just where we’ve been, but who we are
By TIME Photo Department
December 23, 2020
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...
By TIME Photo Department
December 21, 2020
TIME's Top 100 Photos of 2020
The images—some stirring, some haunting, all indelible—that defined the year
By TIME Staff
December 15, 2020
Meet the Biden Campaign's Vast Voter Network
President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris were named TIME’s 2020 person of the year on December 10, after winning the White House with a record-breaking 81 million votes. A diverse coalition of supporters...
By Lissandra Villa and Vera Bergengruen
December 13, 2020
Zanele Muholi Documents Black, Queer Life
"To think that people are being recognized and respected and have been given a space to be themselves—it heals."
By Suyin Haynes
December 3, 2020
TIME's Best Portraits of 2020
Heroes of the COVID-19 Pandemic. President-elect Joe Biden. Megan Thee Stallion. See TIME's best portraits of 2020.
By TIME Staff
December 2, 2020
Portraits of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Favorite Collars and the Stories Behind Them
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American icon. The late Justice, who died on September 18, 2020 at the age of 87, was only the second woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, and a...
By Tessa Berenson
November 24, 2020
Food Banks Strained During COVID-19 Pandemic
Food insecurity is increasing as unemployment rates continue to rise—but food banks are straining to meet the increase in demand
By Abby Vesoulis
November 23, 2020
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...
By TIME Photo Department
November 9, 2020
Scenes from Election Protests in Arizona
Tensions are running high outside of the Maricopa County Elections office in Phoenix, Ariz., where more than a hundred protestors have demonstrated for the last three nights to argue about the electoral process after former...
By Paul Moakley
November 6, 2020
Scenes from Behind the Frontlines of Europe's Oldest 'Frozen War' in Nagorno-Karabakh
In an Armenian trench in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, strings of empty ration cans hang from a rafter jerry-rigged above canted mud walls, intended to jangle in the event of contact from an enemy...
By Joseph Hincks
October 22, 2020
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