![]() “So when the chance comes, we make the most of the opportunity.” “Freedom to witness what’s happening on the ground is so rare,” he said. But Tyler Hicks, who has won multiple Pulitzer Prizes, made his third trip into Yemen, the once beautiful country that has become the scene of a dire humanitarian crisis. There seemed to be fewer pictures of war than in years past, perhaps because some of the world’s most dangerous conflicts are being waged in harder, more treacherous places to reach. One of the most powerful people in Washington, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, got her own meme when she smiled - or perhaps smirked - as she applauded President Trump’s State of the Union address. They posed nearly every woman sworn in to Congress in a historic class of 131, creating a series of portraits of a younger, more diverse group of players vying for influence. Herman and Celeste Sloman documented some of the cultural and political power shifts that shook up America’s political leadership in 2019. ![]() Nonetheless, our photographers Doug Mills, Erin Schaff and Damon Winter made subtle and telling images of a process often obscured by political maneuvering and stagecraft.Įlizabeth D. The intrigue that may lead to the impeachment of an American president - the biggest domestic story of this year and probably the next - took place over secret phone calls and behind the closed doors of the Oval Office. And the entire roof of the 850-year-old Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris caught fire, and came perilously close to bringing down the medieval structure.īy comparison, Washington’s power struggles mostly eluded the camera. Blazes destroyed large parts of the Amazon rainforest. The wildfires that erupted across California seemed urgent and frightening. Some stories were obvious in their photographic power. ![]() The result is this collection of images, a visual chronicle of violence, political power struggles, climate catastrophes, mass shootings and a few poignant scenes of everyday life. But a quiet image of two people stood out as perhaps the saddest: Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez lay with his arm limply draped over his 23-month-old daughter, Angie Valeria, their lifeless bodies locked together on the banks of the Rio Grande, where they drowned trying to cross from Mexico into the United States.Įvery year the photo editors of The New York Times cull through 365 days of photographs in an attempt to recapture and visually distill the year. The tumult of mass gatherings produced some of the year’s most powerful pictures. A subway fare increase was the final spark that led to protests in Santiago, Chile, and people heaved makeshift bombs along a bridge linking Venezuela and Colombia. Brexit drew tens of thousands into the streets of London. Week after week, protesters poured onto the wide boulevards of Hong Kong, where the photographer Lam Yik Fei seemed to be everywhere. So much of the year’s news played out in the streets.
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