Curated by Endia Beal
This year, the Women Photograph Year in Pictures showcases the work of 100 of our 1,400+ members across the globe, highlighting assignment work, long term documentary projects, and personal stories from the past year. The continuing Russo-Ukrainian War dominated news cycles, as did growing concerns over the impacts of climate change worldwide and a near constant attack on human rights for women, migrants, and LGBTQIA+ people. COVID remains, but has significantly faded from public discourse and visualizations of our day-to-day lives. And as always, we hope you’ll find some moments of tenderness and quiet even in the midst of tension and chaos.
Artist, curator, and educator Endia Beal curated this year’s essay, including stories from Chile to Ukraine to Dagestan to South Africa. You can pre-order the fifth issue of the Women Photograph Annual here, and donate to Women Photograph here. Thank you, and we wish everyone a safe and happy end to 2022!
TERRA FONDRIEST
www.terrafondriest.com | @terrafondriest
”My daughter clings tight to her cat Bramble who she caught walking too close to the fire as our family was burning the woods around our home in the rural Ozark hills of St. Joe, Arkansas, in an effort to have protection in case of a wildfire.”
MOA KARLBERG
moakarlberg.com | @moakarlberg
An unusual snowstorm covered the Swedish west coast in April.
OKSANA PARAFENIUK
www.oksanaparafeniuk.com | @oksana_par
Participants of civil-defense training organized by the National Corps and held on the grounds of an abandoned heavy machinery factory on Kyiv’s western outskirts train with wooden makeshift weapons in Kyiv, Ukraine on February 6. In the months prior to the Russian full-scale invasion, civil-defense trainings became more widespread in Kyiv and in other major Ukrainian cities, some of which were organized by formal institutions like the Territorial Defense Forces, a reservist force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
For U.S. News & World Report.
I-HWA CHENG
ihwacheng.com | @ihwacheng
F-16V jets move down the runway at the Chiayi Air Base in Taiwan on January 5.
ANNICE LYN
www.annicelyn.com | @annicelyn
A worker in a hazmat suit walks through a hotel restaurant which is part of the closed-loop 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. Strict protocols kept COVID infections relatively low during the games.
ALYSSA POINTER
alyssapointerphoto.format.com | @alyssapointerphoto
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris joined civil rights leaders and other guests as they walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the “Bloody Sunday” commemorations in Selma, Alabama, on March 6.
For Reuters.
NADIA HUGGINS
nadiahuggins.com | @nadiahuggins
Every day the sea takes back a piece of the island. Haiti.
LEE-ANN OLWAGE
www.leeannolwage.com | @leeannolwage
A portrait of Michealle Naeku from the series The Right To Play. This project was created in collaboration with Kakenya's Dream, a nonprofit that leverages education to empower girls, end harmful traditional practices including female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage, and transform communities in rural Kenya.
ADRIENNE SURPRENANT
adriennesurprenant.com | @adrienne_surprenant
Soldiers hold the Ukrainian flag during the funeral of four Ukrainian soldiers: Oleg Vashchyshyn, Kyrylo Vyshyvanyi, Rostyslav Romanchuk, and Serhiy Melnyk. The four men died in a rocket attack against the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security in Yavoriv, around 20 kilometers from the Polish border. The funeral was held in the Saints Peter and Paul Garisson Church in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 15.
NATALIE KEYSSAR
www.nataliekeyssar.com | @nataliekeyssar
Sofia, 13, of Luhansk, Ukraine poses for a portrait at the women’s shelter. She and her mother had fled both the shelling and the bitter cold and food shortages after electricity and supply lines were cut off to their home. Her mother doesn’t want to leave Ukraine and hopes to stay in the west with her family for now while it is relatively safe.
ANA PALACIOS
ana-palacios.com | @anapalaciosphoto
Luggage from bus passengers fleeing from war in Ukraine waits to be taken inside a Barcelona hotel after a long 35 hour journey from Premyzil, a Polish town on the Ukrainian border.
SEILA MONTES
seilamontes.com | @seila_montes
A girl gives police the finger in front of the National Palace during the 8th of May protests from the middle of a cloud of gas. Mexico is one of the most violent countries for women, with an estimated ten women killed every day.
GRETA RICO
www.gretarico.com | @gretarico
In November 2017, my cousin Fernanda was the victim of femicide. This documentary project comes from my family’s most intimate story, and documents the life of my cousin Siomara who became a substitute mother for her niece Nicole.
Since she was 3 years old, Nicole has suffered episodes of anxiety that sometimes are accompanied by severe nervous dermatitis. When that happens, Siomara rubs different ointments and creams on her skin after bathing to relieve itching.
In Mexico, ten women are killed every day, leaving around 22 children orphaned. This project shows how femicide does not end with the murder of a woman, but has psychosocial impacts that cause trauma in orphaned children, as well as the mothers, sisters, grandmothers, and aunts who become their surrogate parents.
LISA MILOSAVLJEVIC
lisamilosavljevic.com | @lisamilosav
Nuka Fennel poses for a portrait as a 50s housewife in their living room. Nuka organizes drag events as Mistress Aurora Whorealis in Iqaluit, Nunavut while also working at a community food center and running their own food catering business.
HELENA LEA MANHARTSBERGER & LAILA SIEBER
helena-manhartsberger.com | @helena_manhartsberger
Leo is four years old and has already drawn several pictures about the war. "The first time he painted the colors of the flag in the wrong order, but now he's doing it right," says his mother Adrien. "We try not to talk about bad things in the family. The children don't ask questions and we don't say anything either. We follow what's happening on TV, they see what's going on, but they also know that we are safe here," says Borys. The family lives in Bakosh, a village near the Hungarian border. Normally, the parents work as caretakers in the local primary school, but since the beginning of the war the building has been a shelter.
ELISABETTA ZAVOLI
www.elisabettazavoli.com | @elizavola
Ana, 10 years old, sits on her bed in Hotel Margherita in Rimini, Italy in April. Ana fled Kyiv with her mum and brother while her father remained to fight. Some 100 Ukrainian refugees in Rimini protested against the Italian authorities' plan to relocate them, and without any governmental support hoteliers from the seaside resort opened their doors to the Ukrainians. An estimated 72,000 Ukrainians fleeing war since the Russian invasion on February 24 are currently in Italy, where they can apply for a one-year residence permit. According to the UN, more than 4 million of the 10 million displaced Ukrainians have left their country since the war began.
For Getty Images.
PAULA BRONSTEIN
www.paulaphoto.com | @pbbphoto
In Borodyanka, Ukraine, a man stares at the beauty of a rainbow over a destroyed apartment building heavily damaged by aerial bombardment.
SARAHBETH MANEY
sbmaneyphoto.com | @sbmaneyphoto
Leila Jackson, 17, right, looks toward her mother, Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, while seated by her father Patrick Jackson during day one of confirmation hearings at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC on March 21.
For The New York Times: The Story Behind That Photo of Ketanji Brown Jackson and Her Daughter
ELIZABETH FRANTZ
elizabethfrantz.com | @lizfrantz
A tear rolls down Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's face as she listens to Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., speak during the third day of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to the Supreme Court.
CAMILA FALCÃO
www.camifalcao.com | @camifalcao
Fabien and Isabô embrace each other. They're both nonbinary and have a non-monogamous relationship. This picture is part of my project "When The Body No Longer Feels Patriarchy Won."
REBECA BINDA
rebecabinda.com | @rebecabinda
The 24-year-old Txai Suruí — the only Brazilian to speak at the opening of COP26 — was present in April at the annual Free Land Camp, which gathered more than 8,000 Indigenous people in Brasília to amplify their ongoing fight to save their culture and way of life.
KAREN TORO
karentoro.com | @karentoroa
A small boy holds a flare in the middle of mobilizations for International Women's Day in Quito. Thousands of women marched in different cities of Ecuador to demand the defense of their rights.
For La Periódica.
ANA MARIA AREVALO GOSEN
anamariaarevalogosen.com | @anitasinfiltro
A poppy eradication operation run by military and anti-narcotics police in the municipality of San Marcos, Guatemala, on the border with Mexico attempts to remove all poppies from the area. Poppy is the flower from which opium, the raw material for heroin, is made. According to the police, an ounce of opium is worth $150 when bought by Guatemalan or Mexican drug traffickers. Families are dedicated to poppy cultivation in this area, often the only economic means they have to survive.
ANJA MATTHES
anjamatthes.com | @anja_matthes
Muva Caijun Barbie is a young trans woman and a member of the underground Kiki Ballroom scene in New York City. The community is self-organized by LGBTQ+ youth of color, and provides an alternative to high risk behaviors, as well as a support system that is a form of survival and resistance for a marginalized group.
ERIKA P RODRIGUEZ
www.erikaprodriguez.com | @erikaprodriguez
Firefighters protest alongside thousands of teachers and other public employees outside of the governor's mansion to demand a fair wage and dignified retirement in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After the approval of the Debt Adjustment Plan in U.S. federal court during the bankruptcy, teachers were left with a small fraction of their retirement, among other austerity measures. Recently, Governor Pedro Pierluisi made remarks towards cops and firefighters saying that if they did not like the pay or working conditions they were not forced to remain on the job, sparking indignation and resulting in more public employees attending the protest.
For The New York Times: Puerto Rico Teachers Lead Push for Higher Pay for Public Workers
MAGGIE SHANNON
www.maggieshannon.net | @maggiehshannon
Sisters Maddi Borland and Kailey Borland at the Niles Hotel after the Colt Challenge, held at the fairgrounds in Alturas, California.
For The New York Times: Some Kids Play Sports. These Kids Train Wild Horses.
LENKA KLICPEROVA
lenkaklicperova.cz | @lenkaklicperova
“Mom, what happened to the car?”
A little girl looks at the wreckage of a car in the town of Korosten in northwestern Ukraine. It was destroyed along with about 15 other houses in the area. Russian bombs and missiles hit the residential area. There were dead and wounded, including a child who lost both legs.
LOUISA GOULIAMAKI
@louisa.gouliamaki
A girl holds her sibling in a temporary shelter for Ukrainian refugees in a school in Przemysl, near the Ukrainian-Polish border. The number of refugees fleeing Ukraine since the Russian invasion launched by President Vladimir Putin had reached 2.7 million by March 13, according to the UN.
For AFP.
LAUREL CHOR
www.laurelchor.com | @laurelchor
Two women embrace as they watch government workers exhume bodies from a mass grave found in Bucha, a suburb outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 8. Approximately 400 bodies were found in Bucha after it was liberated from Russian occupation in early April.
ANDREEA CAMPEANU
andreea-campeanu.com | @andreeacampeanu
Bogdana Alekseeva, who fled the war in Ukraine, waits backstage during her first performance with the Romanian National Opera in Bucharest, Romania.
LAUREN CREW
www.laurencrew.com | @laurencrew
Multiple exposure portrait of artist Taija Kerr.
ANA ELISA SOTELO
anaelisasotelo.com | @anaelisasotelov
Women bathe in the waters of Las Cujas beach in Zapallar, Chile.
LUVIA LAZO
wwww.luvialazo.com | @luvia_lazo
Mari holds her purchases from the market. Maria is a traditional cook and is in charge of the food for big celebrations in the community of Teotitlan del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico.
CHRISTINA STOHN
christinastohn.com | @christinastohn
Brynna, a 17-year-old student at Ste. Genevieve High School, poses in her prom dress on the afternoon before the big dance. This year’s Hollywood theme brought a glamorous feel to their venue, Audubon’s Hotel and Restaurant in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
STELLA KALININA
stellakalinina.com | @stella_kalinina
Ashley Manning and her daughter Rhiley share a moment after Ashley returned home from her work shift as a unionized employee at Ralph's grocery store in San Pedro, Calif. During the pandemic, her employer was inflexible with work hours when Manning had few options for childcare amid school closures.
For The 19th: ‘This is our time’: How women are taking over the labor movement
MADDIE MCGARVEY
maddiemcgarvey.com | @maddiemcgarvey
Former President Trump speaks at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio.
VERÓNICA CÁRDENAS
www.veronicagabriela.com | @veronica_g_cardenas
Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke interrupts a press conference held by Republican Governor Greg Abbott the day after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. This was the deadliest school mass shooting in Texas and second deadliest recorded in the USA. In 2021, lawmakers in Texas passed a bill allowing permitless carry, thus allowing nearly anyone 18 years of age and older to be able to buy a gun or assault rifle without a permit. O’Rourke, who advocates for stricter gun control, confronted Abbott who has refused to impose a ban on assault weapons like the AR-15, which was what the 18-year-old gunman used in Uvalde. “This is on you until you chose to do something different,” O’Rourke said.
For Reuters.
LISA KRANTZ
lisakrantz.com | @krantzypants
Nicole Samaniego, a third grade teacher from Amarillo, Texas, stands next to a memorial wall featuring a row of chairs with the name of each victim killed at Robb Elementary School, for a balloon release during the “Remember Uvalde Candlelight Vigil,” at Encina Pediatrics and Primary Care in Uvalde.
YAGAZIE EMEZI
www.yagazieemezi.com | @yagazieemezi
“Women with severe mental illness experience sexual assault and domestic violence at higher rates than the general public — and the harrowing stories of many of the women at St. Camille reflect this. ‘Homeless and mentally ill women are being raped because there is this fetish belief that if a man sleeps with a mentally disturbed woman, he will be wealthy or no spiritual spell can affect his life," explained Gregoire Ahongbonon who founded the first St. Camille center in 1991. "That is the reason why our first desire when we see these types of women is to take them off the street and give them a home.’” — Vanessa Offiong
Theresa, 30, arrived at the center with hallucinations when her baby was 1 month old. With supervision, she’s now encouraged to spend as much time as possible with her child.
For CNN: Abused and abandoned, three women share their stories of pregnancy with schizophrenia
SANDRA HERNÁNDEZ
vitaflumen.com | @vita_flumen
Fatima celebrates her 11th birthday at a party with her friends in Trinidad, Cuba. This image is part of my ongoing project Open Doors.
ROBERTA VALERIO
robertavalerio.com | @robertavalerio.photo
Every year, thousands of migrants stop in Nouhadibou, the economic capital of Mauritania, on their way to try to reach Europe. Raby Kamara arrived here from Guinea last year to flee from a heavy family situation. She tried to cross the border and walked through the Sahara several times, but every time she was rejected at the Mauritanian border. When she told me about her trip to get here, she started to cry — on the road, she endured rape and other violence. Now she has a baby, Ousmane, always on her shoulders. She decided to live in Nouhadibou with Ousmane’s father and to open a small hairdressing salon at the market. Her son will not be able to attend Mauritanian schools or have the privileges of a citizen, but she can’t return home.
JULIA GUNTHER
juliagunther.com | @juliagunther_photography
Kelly de Waard (left), former quarterback for the Amsterdam Cats, and her replacement, Rufina Michels-Mastail, pose for a portrait at the Hotel l’Europe in Amsterdam.
For NPR: For the love of the game: These were the athletes of the Queens Football League
AMY OSBORNE
amyosbornephotography.com | @amyosborneamy
Ricky Hill and his son Silas, 8, pause for a portrait during their BB gun shooting practice in the woods next to Golden Gate Village. Hill grew up in the complex, and his mother and grandmother still live there as well. Hill and Silas use the woods almost every day, riding their motorbikes, shooting BB guns, or doing other adventurous outdoor activities. Residents of Golden Gate Village, one of the last remaining public housing developments in Marin County, are fighting to preserve their community's homes and become a national model for affordable housing. With housing costs endlessly skyrocketing and unaffordable for so many, tenant-owned cooperatives chart a potential path forward toward securing properties as permanent affordable housing — while also maintaining community control.
SAMANTHA REINDERS
samreinders.com | @samreinders
Remains of broken homes and old farmsteads scatter the semi-desert Karoo region of South Africa. No exact definition of what constitutes the Karoos boundaries is available, so its extent is also not precisely defined. In the absence of this, topography, geology, climate (low rainfall, arid air, cloudless skies and extremes of heat and cold), stand in as a demarcation. For me, though, it is home.
MARLENA WALDTHAUSEN
www.marlena-waldthausen.de | @marlenawaldthausen
Icebergs at the floe edge close to Pond Inlet, a settlement of approximately 1,500 people, mostly Inuit, in Nunavut province, Canada. People travel to the floe edge to hunt. Due to climate change the ice is melting earlier in the year which gives people less time to hunt and forces them to adapt their lifestyle. Temperatures have risen 2.7 degrees Celsius over the last 75 years compared to 1.7 in the rest of Canada.
KRISTINA BARKER
www.kristinabarker.com | @kristinabarker
The morning sun illuminates the calm surface of the Alsea River near Tidewater, Oregon. Small fish feed near the bank, breaking the water’s surface while pollen and cottonwood seed float by.
TRACY BARBUTES
www.tracybarbutes.com | @tracybarbutes
A firefighter manages an Oak Fire back burn operation between Yosemite National Park and the rural California community of Mariposa.
For Reuters.
ALLISON DINNER
allisondinner.com | @allisondinner
Firefighters battle the Route Fire as it burned over 5,000 acres in Castaic, California in August. Southern California was under a heat advisory with high temperatures over 100 degrees, and saw the worst drought in more than a century. Climate change is causing seasonal wildfires to have more extreme behavior, and become more common.
BRITTANY SOWACKE
brittanysowacke.com | @brittanysowacke
Saugatuck, a town on Michigan’s western coast, is Chicago’s answer to Fire Island. With multiple gay resorts in the small town, it’s an international attraction for single and coupled LGBTQIA+ people. Joe Gallagher, 37, of Chicago, center, booked his hotel room four months previously, knowing this weekend at The Dunesmwould would be a hit. “It’s [also] great for me to see a gay business thriving,” said Gallagher, “to be able to come to a vacation destination as ourselves is so important.”
For WBEZ Chicago.
MARIAN CARRASQUERO
mariancarrasquero.com | @mariancaa
Mexico City Pride Parade, June.
FATIMA TUJ JOHORA
fatimatujjohora.com | @fatimatujjohora
A boy runs to perform his prayer in a newly built mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
MONTINIQUE MONROE
montinique.com | @montiniquemonroe
Krea Lewis stands among hundreds of pro-choice supporters outside of Pan American Neighborhood Park after Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke’s Rally for Reproductive Freedom in Austin, Texas.
For The New York Times: State Battles Are Defining the Shifting Abortion Landscape
LAURA MORTON
www.lauramortonphoto.com | @laurakmorton
Chaundre Franklin (center), Miss Gettysburg Juneteenth 2022, and other participants in the Gettysburg Juneteenth Parade pause on the steps of the St Paul A.M.E. Zion Church in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Instead of a traditional parade, the organizers created an event where parade participants stopped at sites along the route that are historically important to Gettysburg’s Black community. At each site, speakers would describe the historical significance of the place. A.M.E. Zion is the oldest congregation of Black community members in Gettysburg and dates to 1838.
ALESSIA ROLLO
alessiarollo.it | @alesrollo
"The marriage of the trees" is an old ritual that takes place in the village of Basilicata, Italy. After choosing a male and a female tree, people from the village bring them to the town’s main square and make a new tree by putting together the frustum of the male tree and the crown of the female one. Here we see two lumberjacks climbing the new tree and doing stunts. The pinpoints of light come from making small holes in the image and photographing it against a lightbox.
ERIN KIRKLAND
www.erinkirklandphotography.com | @eakirklandphoto
A person swims as the sun rises over Lake Michigan at South Shore Beach in Chicago, Illinois. Sometimes, on Saturdays, Dorothy Glinton, 79, walks from her apartment to the beach. Part of the Great Migration, Glinton was born in Georgia and moved to Florida at nine after her mother’s death. She graduated from high school in Miami and in 1966 followed her sister to Chicago where she got a job at GTE. She quit six years later to attend DePaul University and graduated in 1976. She then started at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant on the assembly line and later moved into a supervising role. Always advocating for herself and others, she filed a sex discrimination lawsuit in the 90’s after noticing how she and other women weren’t being promoted at the same rate as their male peers.
For The New York Times: How One Woman Risked the Great Migration, and Found Opportunity in a New Life
ASMAA WAGUIH
www.asmaawaguih.com | @asmaawaguih
A damaged building in the Saltivka district of Kharkiv, Ukraine — the area most affected by Russian shelling in the city.
SANJA KNEZEVIC
sanjaknezevic.com | @sanjaknezevicphotography
Children playing at the end of a hot summer day in a Roma settlement in Belgrade, Serbia.
SARAH PABST
www.sarahpabst.com | @_sarahpabst_
After several hours of labor, Thayline Santos is prepared for a C-section at the Maria Amélia Buarque de Hollanda public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although the WHO warns against the risks for both baby and mother of unnecessary C-sections, with 55.5% of all deliveries, Brazil has one of the highest rates in the world. Following a more humanized approach, Thayline was able to hold her daughter while still on the operating table and breastfed her for the first time in the so-called golden hour after birth.
JOANNE COATES
joannecoates.co.uk | @joannecoates_
Annie Stones photographed at her home in Swaledale, England. Annie is a farmer and feed store representative. Photographed for long-term project the Daughters of the Soil.
CHALINEE THIRASUPA
www.chalineethirasupa.com | @chalinee.thirasupa
Monks walk to receive alms from local people on a flooded street in Koh Kret Island, which is located in the Chao Phraya River on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand. Authorities declared this area a disaster hit by flooding while several provinces throughout Thailand experienced similar heavy flooding due to heavy rainfall.
For Reuters.
ANITA POUCHARD SERRA
anitapouchardserra.com | @anitapouchardserra
Demonstrators hold a giant Argentinian flag during a rally in support of Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner following her assassination attempt in Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires on September 2. Thousands of Argentines gathered in downtown Buenos Aires to express support and solidarity.
For Bloomberg.
TAYLOR GLASCOCK
tayloremreyphoto.com | @tayloremrey
Feroza Binti Abdul Rashid, a Rohingya refugee, and her 5-year-old daughter at their home in Milwaukee. Her husband has not been able to join the family in the United States.
For The New York Times: ‘They Forgot About Us’: Inside the Wait for Refugee Status
MADINA GADJIEVA
madinagadjieva.com | @gmadina_photo
Cousins Vazipat and Zuleikha riding bikes near the madrasah in Endirey, Dagestan. Vazipat (on the left) entered the madrasah in the early summer of 2022 because her parents wanted her to read the Quran and do the prayer. Every day she rides to the madrasah on a bike, because it is a long way from home. Zuleikha (on the right) entered the madrasah in the early summer as well by her own choice because she wanted to learn how to read the Quran.
CELIA D LUNA
celiadluna.com | @celiadluna
Rosario Aruquipa Mamami, a Cholita wrestler, poses in front of a blue tarp right before her performance in La Paz, Bolivia.
MAY TRUONG
maytruong.com | @maytruong_photography
Phan Thi Kim Phuc photographed in her home in Ajax, Ontario, Canada. Known as "Naplam Girl," Phuc was the young girl in Nick Ut's 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo from the Vietnam War. This portrait accompanied a New York Times opinion piece to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the photo. She resides in Canada where she founded the Kim Foundation International which provides aid to child victims of war around the world.
For The New York Times: It’s Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore.
SERRA AKCAN
serraakcan.com | @serraakcan
People gathered in Kadikoy, Istanbul to protest the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who fell into a coma and died in a hospital in Tehran because of police violence. Mahsa Amini was arrested for not wearing the hijab currently required by Iranian law.
MIRIAM ALARCON AVILA
miriamalarconavila.com | @miriamalarconavila
Young dancers prepare to perform a traditional Mexican folkloric dance, which takes place during the Latino Heritage Festival in Des Moines, Iowa. They are wearing multicolored outfits and traditional hairstyles from the state of Chiapas, Mexico, to perform in front of more than a thousand spectators during the celebrations of the Latinx Heritage Month.
MAHÉ ELIPE
www.mahelipe.com | @_mahelipe_
María López and María Pérez are Indigenous artisans from the Chiapas region of Mexico, and are part of the Impacto organization, which regularly denounces the "borrowing" of big fashion brands who appropriate traditional cultural textiles, patterns, and techniques.
HANNAH YOON
www.hannahyoon.com | @hanloveyoon
First grade students play together during their bathroom break at Vare-Washington Public School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
For The New York Times: Back to School and Back to Normal. Or at Least Close Enough.
KIANA HAYERI
www.kianahayeri.com | @kianahayeri
A group of women and young girls collect what's left from their cotton field in a waist deep swamp in Nawabshah, Pakistan, in the wake of catastrophic floods.
MAIRA ERLICH
www.mairaerlich.com | @mairaerlich
Supporters of Brazil's president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attend a rally during his election campaign in Recife, Brazil.
For AFP.
LAUREN PETRACCA
laurenpetracca.com | @laurenpetracca
People surround Elea Daniel in prayer as she cries following a mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York. “God says we have to love no matter what,” said Daniel, who was trying to find forgiveness for the man that racially targeted the community and left 10 people dead.
For CNN: ‘We didn’t have much, and you took what was left’
ANDREA BAKACS
andreabakacsphoto.com | @andreabakacs
The colorful hand-painted facade of a traditional casita in the town of Pescadero, Mexico, owned and built by Racquel Oropeza. Oropeza is one of many young people from around the world moving to Baja California Sur, specifically the area around the pueblo magico Todos Santos, for inexpensive property near the coast. The area is seeing incredibly rapid rates of construction, as land prices continue to double every few months.
KATHY SHORR
kathyshorr.com | @katshorr
Romania, from SHOT: We the Mothers Miami — a photography documentary featuring mothers who have lost children to gun violence. The first 51 mothers were photographed in the Philadelphia area and I am currently photographing 50 mothers in Miami. The women have been photographed at locations of their choice which hold a special meaning to their child. Photographs of mementos from the children are also included in the project. The text associated with the project are from the mother’s social media posts, unfiltered in their descriptions of what they are facing. The mothers are survivors of the collateral damage created by gun violence.
JULIE DERMANSKY
jsdart.com | @juliedermansky
A search and rescue vehicle drives through one of the hardest hit areas by Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers Beach, Florida.
YADIRA HERNÁNDEZ-PICÓ
yhphotosdesign.com | @yadiraphotos
Hurricane Fiona devastated Puerto Rico's plantain crops on Sept. 18. The storm’s landfall coincided with the five-year anniversary of devastating Hurricane Maria – from which the island has yet to fully recover. The agricultural industry on the island was already heavily impacted by Maria, with roughly 80 percent of the island's crop value lost. Plantain and banana crops were among the hardest hit, in the southern municipality of Peñuelas.
EUGÉNIE BACCOT
eugeniebaccot.com | @eugenie.baccot
The ship Océan Viking arrived in Toulon, France on November 11 with 230 migrants on board, after three weeks of wandering at sea after being refused entry in Italy. The C.C.A.S. Centre du Levant located on the peninsula of Giens waas temporarily transformed into a closed detention area where applications for entry into France are examined by French authorities.
MADELINE GRAY
madelinegrayphoto.com | @madelinepgray
Trey Dail, of Wilson, North Carolina, stands in the bleachers during the Mule Days rodeo in Benson, North Carolina. Mule Days, which has been held for 73 years, is a celebration of cowboy culture. Riders parade their horses and mules throughout the town in an event that honors the most “infamous” of animals.
NADEGE MAZARS
www.nadegemazars.com | @nadege_mazars
From the edge of a mountain, we can see the San Francisco valley that descends to Toribio. On the sides of the mountains, the white lights are activated at night in the marijuana fields to stimulate their growth. Marijuana crops stretch for miles across the region. For Indigenous authorities, illicit crops introduce disharmony in the territory and with Mother Earth, disrupting socioeconomic relations and even contaminating water sources with pesticides and production processes. Illicit crops are also at the heart of interests supporting the development of irregular armed groups clashing with indigenous authorities.
GABRIELLA BAEZ
www.gabriellanbaez.com | @gabriellanbaez
This is a collage of belongings family members of people who died in the wake of Hurricane María have kept close. Five years after the storm battered Puerto Rico, many are still in mourning.
For National Geographic: ‘Like a dystopian novel’: Puerto Rico still mourns, five years after María
JINKI CAMBRONERO
jinkicambronero.com | @jinkic
Animal advocate Lynley Tulloch with rescue bull Harry, in rural Auckland, New Zealand.
DEE DWYER
deedwyerjonts.com | @deedwyerjonts
In Southeast Washington, D.C. dirt bike and ATV riders from across America gathered for an annual Ride Out on August 28. During this event bikers flaunt their unique tricks and ride together through the city. Though this street sport is illegal, the culture continues to grow — spreading the message in high crime communities to pick up the bikes and put down the guns.
TIRA KHAN
tirakhan.com | @tirakhan
This is a collage from the series, The Woman in the Wall, loosely based on the short story, The Yellow Wallpaper.
MARYLISE VIGNEAU
www.marylisevigneau.com | @marylisevigneau
Juana, 80 years old, plays with her nephew’s boxing gloves on the staircase of her building. Her Jamaican father was a veteran of the First World War. He died 30 years ago, but she still thinks of him daily. She lives alone in a tiny apartment, and since the economic reforms in 2021, finding food without access to foreign currency has become an ordeal. She barely manages to feed herself and is increasingly angry.
CAROLINE YANG
www.carolineyang.com | @carolineyangphoto
A multiple-exposure portrait of Shawanda Hill, a former girlfriend of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On May 25, 2020, Hill met Floyd at Cup Foods moments before his fatal encounter with former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Blocked by a park officer, Hill was unable to see that Floyd was being suffocated under Chauvin’s knee, and left to care for her granddaughter. It wasn’t until the next day that she heard about his death on the morning news. She still mourns not doing more for him, but Hill also remembers Floyd for the ways he loved and held her up during their time together. She says, “He let me cry, he let me snap. He was there for me.”
HEATHER AGYEPONG
heatheragyepong.com | @heathatrottlives
"Ego Death is a new body of work inspired by psychiatrist Carl Jung’s concept of ‘The Shadow.’ Both deeply personal and universal at the same time, it presents an exploration of self-discovery, imperfection, compassion and radical acceptance.
According to Jung, ‘the Shadow’ is comprised of aspects of one’s personality deemed inappropriate, that may have been shamed and repressed – often during childhood and adolescence. Over the past year, Heather Agyepong has been discovering and exploring her own shadow; unpacking ideas around shame, observing what she projects onto other people and using free writing/painting techniques in an attempt to confront and make peace with it.”
Commissioned by Jerwood Arts & Photoworks 2022.
DANIELLE VILLASANA
www.daniellevillasana.com | @davillasana
People cross the Rio Grande between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso hoping to receive asylum in the United States. A family from Venezuela, not pictured here, traveling with children—the youngest of whom was nine months old—said they heard officials were letting people with kids pass. Having just arrived in Juárez after a “traumatic” journey that they “didn’t wish on anyone” where they saw dead bodies of people who had choked in the rivers of the Darién Gap, they quickly crossed the Rio Grande to turn themselves into Customs and Border Protection officials. Despite days of inhumane treatment in detention centers and promises of entering the United States, millions of migrants are returned back to Mexico without the opportunity to seek asylum under Title 42. Recently, the Biden administration announced that this pandemic-era statute first employed by the Trump administration would be extended to Venezuelans.
EVA PAREY
www.evaparey.com | @eva.parey
Carlos T. was evicted from the house he had occupied for eight years. He lost his job in the economic crisis of 2008 and has battled unemployment since. Some of his neighbors tried to stop the eviction, to no avail. After the eviction was carried out, a neighbor rescued some objects that Carlos collected from the street, aiming to sell them in a junkyard. In Barcelona, an average of 25 evictions take place every day. Catalonia is the region of Spain with the most evictions. In the second quarter of 2022 there were 10,816 at the state level. The incessant growth of poverty and the impact of war affects more and more families who cannot afford to pay conventional rent.
ROSHNI LODHIA
@roshni.lodhia
This is the family of Mzee Bakari. They live together as one big family, with 15 adults and 10 children. There’s a tap outside their home where they fetch water for daily use in Tanga, Tanzania.
NYIMAS LAULA
www.nyimaslaula.com | @nyimaslaula
A man holds up an Arema Malang team scarf during a mass gathering to remember the victims of the disaster at Kanjuruhan Stadium that killed at least 131 people in Malang, Indonesia, marking it as one of the worst in the sport's history.
For The Wall Street Journal: How Police Tactics at Indonesia Soccer Stadium Led to Disaster That Killed 131
ANGELA PONCE
www.angela-ponce.com | @angelaponce_photo
A musician walks up a hill at the cemetery to offer his services to people who visit the graves of their loved ones during Day of the Dead celebrations, in Lima, Peru.
FATMA FAHMY
fatmafahmy.com | @fatmah.fahmy
Ajab Muhammad Miftah, 54, sits for a portrait in her home while the hands of her daughters support her. Miftah lost her husband and two sons when they immigrated to Aswan, Egypt. Ajab is a member of the community in Ezbat Soliman now coping with severe pollution in Lake Qarun, mostly due to agricultural runoff.
LISA MAREE WILLIAMS
lisamareewilliams.com | @lmwfoto
Athena Amos and members of the Ensemble Nabanga rehearse at their accommodation in Brisbane, Australia. Ensemble Nabanga, Vanuatu's first ever youth orchestra, is made up of students from the Lycee Francais J.M.G. Le Clézio in Port Vila. The students take lessons from teacher Barbara Idieder on the violin, viola, and cello twice a week during their lunch hour. The ensemble traveled to Brisbane and Toowoomba this week to perform, take part in workshops, and to watch a performance by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. The group now has 34 students — all of whom learn to play their instruments for free, as the cost of learning and of owning instruments would otherwise be too expensive for most families to afford.
For Getty Images.
IDEALITA ISMANTO
idealitaismanto.com | @mavira.idealita
A family of salt farmers, Buasan, 50, Mastriani, 40, and Fitri, 5, in the hut where they live in the Sedati area of East Java, Indonesia. They had to return to Sumenep, Madura early due to the rainy season coming early.
SARAH RICE
www.sarahricephotography.com | @sarahricephoto
Friends Zoe Touray and Madeline Johnson, both 18, at Stony Lake Park in Oxford, Michigan. They became close while coping after the shooting at their high school during their senior year, almost ten months ago. Madeline lost a close friend, Madisyn Baldwin, in the shooting. Students across the country are finding networks of support through the growing numbers of school shooting survivors.
For The Washington Post Magazine: These School Shooting Survivors Are Building Remarkable Networks of Friendship and Support
DARO SULAKAURI
darosulakauri.com | @darosulakauri
Demonstrators gathered in front of the Georgian parliament on June 20 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Approximately 60,000 people gathered at the rally in Georgia's capital to voice support for the country's bid to join the European Union.
For Getty Images.
ALICIA VERA
www.aliciavera.com | @aliciavera
Models for Mexican designer Benito Santos pose for a portrait during Vogue’s Day of the Dead gala in Mexico City, Mexico.
SU CASSIANO
www.sucassiano.com | @su_cassiano
Aheda is a Palestinian chef and refugee rebuilding her life in Melbourne. She is learning English and works hard catering food for events, trying to save money to be able to fulfill her vision. She dreams to open her own Palestinian food truck one day. She has been displaced for most of her life, her family scattered in different countries around the world.
ILANA PANICH-LINSMAN
www.ilanapl.com | @ilanapl
A school bus turns on a country road just north of Lawrence, Kansas.
For Harper's Magazine: In the Running
TANIYA SARKAR
taniyasarkar.com | @taniya.sarkar2
Since India's independence in 1947, violence against women, especially against minority women, has been a recurring feature of sectarian conflicts. Islamist religious identity has become extremely dangerous for the Muslim community in India under the current right-wing government. Wearing burqa or hijab in Hindu-dominated areas is hazardous, sometimes leading to physical assault for the Muslim women of Bengal.
