Curated by Verónica Sanchis Bencomo
This year, the Women Photograph Year in Pictures takes us around the world with work from 100 members of our community. For this sixth edition of our annual photographic review, it once again feels like a year defined by conflict and strife, from the devastating Turkey-Syria earthquake in February to the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, to Hamas’ attack on Israel and the continuing Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Everywhere, it seems, we see evidence of continuing threats to human rights for women, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color in particular.
But there are still moments of love and human connection even in the most grim circumstances. We hope that you’ll spend some time with this edit from photographer, editor, curator, and community organizer Verónica Sanchis Bencomo and, as you look back over 2023, connect with a lesser-known story or learn something new about a major news event. You can pre-order the sixth issue of the Women Photograph Annual here, and donate to Women Photograph here. Thank you, and we wish everyone a safe and healthy end to 2023!
ADRIANA THOMASA
www.adrianathomasa.com | @adrianathomasa_
Women participate in a vigil commemorating the 50th anniversary of Augusto Pinochet’s coup d'état against the democratic government of the socialist Salvador Allende on September 11, 2023. Thousands of people marched through the streets of Santiago de Chile with photos of relatives murdered, detained or missing in the annual demonstration.
For EPA-EFE.
ADRIENNE SURPRENANT
www.adriennesurprenant.com | @adrienne_surprenant
Asma's mother, an invalid before her house was flooded, is taken to the hospital in the Om Al Qura school in Derna, Libya.
MYOP for Le Monde.
LINA COLLADO GARCÍA
www.linacollado.com | @lina_collado
From “A Disappearing Home.” In Teton County, Wyoming, America’s wealthiest and most economically unequal county, the working class fueling the economy is quickly disappearing due to the housing shortage. Rental rates in Jackson and lack of development space push workers from their homes and leave communities in danger of losing those they most rely on. Samantha, 11, Isabel, 44, Angel, 10, and Ana, 8, play "Lobo" with the elders of the family. Isabel and Samantha live in their trailer home with seven other family members.
ROSEM MORTON
www.rosem.xyz | @rosemmorton
Kellyn Taylor, 37, an American marathoner, is surrounded by her children as she breastfeeds her 10-month-old, Keagan. Taylor is one of many new mothers planning to run the New York City Marathon on November 5, 2023.
For The New York Times.
ANUSH BABAJANYAN
www.anush-babajanyan.com | @anushbabajanyan
Bina Devi, 35, and her sons Aditya Kumar, 5, and Vijey Kumar, 6, rest on the shore of Kosi river, in Bihar State, India. Devi has five children. Her family faces the danger of the rising river each year during the monsoon season. The Kosi River is known as the “River of Sorrow” for its vicious nature—its shifting course and frequent floods.
For CCFD-Terre Solidaire.
KATIE BASILE
www.katiebasile.com | @katiebasilephoto
Wilson Twitchell drew an image of what the land was like in Kasigluk, Alaska when he was young. Grass and dry land surrounded his house, stretching at least 80 feet to the riverbank, where he remembers playing with toy boats. Now, when the water is particularly high, the house is nearly an island with the Johnson River running under the front and tundra ponds encroaching on the back. Kasigluk endures many challenges from erosion and thawing permafrost.
For High Country News.
NATÁLIA ALANA
www.nataliaalana.com | @nataliaalana
Tage Carlsson, 52, and Mattias Znar Bokurt, 27, live in Borås, in the South of Sweden. The couple’s life fell apart in late 2022, when Mattias was detained for three months in a pre-removal center. His asylum application was refused on the basis of his participation in Kurdish rights demonstrations in Sweden. A local court later suspended the extradition.
MARY KANG
www.marykang.com | @mary.kang
Portrait of artist Melissa Joseph at her studio in New York City. Melissa’s works consider how bodies that identify as women of color are permitted to occupy space.
SIMONA SUPINO
www.simonasupino.com | @simsupino
Krystyna is resting in a relaxation room in a senior home in Warsaw, Poland. Recently more emphasis has been placed on the needs of the elderly, their well-being, and mental health.
TATSIANA CHYPSANAVA
www.chypsanava.com | @tatsiana_chypsanava
A group of children participate in the pig carrying obstacle run at the North Canterbury Hunting Competition in Rotherham, New Zealand. The competition had drawn attention earlier in the year by creating a controversial feral cat hunting category for children under 14 years old.
For The New York Times.
ANGELA PONCE
www.angela-ponce.com | @angelaponce_photo
Three generations of women from the Chuquichampi family pose for a portrait in their home in Cusco, Peru.
REBECA BINDA
www.rebecabinda.com | @rebecabinda
Under the sun-kissed skies of Arraial D’ajuda, Bahia, Brazil, Mães de Santo (Saint Mothers) meticulously prepare a boat adorned with vibrant flowers, destined for the heart of the sea in honor of Iemanjá Day. With utmost care, they pour fragrant alfazema, a lavender perfume, over the offerings, symbols of devotion to the Afro-Brazilian deity of Umbanda and Candomblé (afro-brazilian religions derived from Yoruba). This sacred preparation, rich in tradition, precedes a journey to the middle of the sea, where these floral tributes and gifts will be tenderly presented to Iemanjá, the revered Mother of the Seawater. A poignant moment capturing the essence of spiritual dedication in Brazil's coastal celebration.
RACHEL WISNIEWSKI
www.rachelwisniewski.com | @rachelwizphoto
Cherelle Parker takes the stage after winning the mayoral election and becoming Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s 100th mayor. Parker will be the first woman mayor in the city's history.
For VoteBeat.
ANDREA MORALES
www.andreamoralesphoto.com | @_andrea_morales
Tennessee State Rep. Justin J. Pearson (right) marches alongside State reps. Justin Jones (center) and Gloria Johnson in Memphis ahead of a Shelby County Commission meeting where Pearson was reinstated after three state representatives had their elected positions threatened by the state’s Republican supermajority in response to their participation in a protest for gun reform on the legislative floor.
For MLK50.
MAIRA ERLICH
www.mairaerlich.com | @mairaerlich
Brazil's elected president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, left, in front of thousands of supporters during the presidential inauguration ceremony at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil. At the age of 77, and after being in jail for 580 days, Lula retakes the helm of Latin America's largest democracy for the third time, promising to bring back the economic inclusion and prosperity that marked his first two terms in Brazil's highest office between 2003 and 2011.
FLORENCE GOUPIL
www.florencegoupil.visura.co | @florence.goupil
Sunrise navigating the Yaquerana, a river bordering Peru and Brazil. In Peru in 2009, the Matsés Indigenous people achieved the creation of the Matsés National Reserve of 420 thousand hectares, where most of their communities are settled.
WARA VARGAS
www.waravargas.com | @wara_vargas
The photographs from this series were interwoven with the testimonies of Indigenous women, who live in communities in the Bolivian Amazon. They are suffering the consequences of gold exploitation. “I am from a family of artisanal miners. Before there wasn't much and we didn't use mercury, we didn't know what mercury was. The companies arrived, they brought everything necessary to wash the gold and, seeing that the gold was small, they brought the mercury. We didn't know anything about the risks of mercury. Now we know it's bad for us, but we need help to be able to extract that gold in a way that is not harmful to us or to nature," said Kenya.
ANAELISA SOTELO
www.anaelisasotelo.com | @anaelisasotelov
100 women bathe together in the cold waters of the Salish Sea in a performative act promoting sisterhood, power and freedom.
SAHAR COSTON-HARDY
www.saharch.com | @saharchphoto
Visitors take in the memorial at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. The landscape designed by Hood Design Studio incorporates a reflecting pool in memory of the enslaved people who lost their lives at Gadsden’s Wharf. Inspired by a slave ship diagram, the human figure reliefs comprise the pool floor near the water's edge, collecting water and releasing it with the tide.
CAROLYN FONG
www.carolynfongphotography.com | @cfongphoto
Lawyer Don Tamaki, who recently served on California’s reparations task force as the panel’s only non-Black member, works on his bonsai trees in his backyard in Piedmont as mental health self-care
For The Guardian.
MADELINE GRAY
www.madelinegrayphoto.com | @madelinepgray
Tara Nicole Brooks, a veteran drag performer, puts on her makeup to get ready for a night out at Ibiza Nightclub in Wilmington, North Carolina. At age 59, Brooks has been performing for over 30 years and has become known as the Queen of the Port City, referencing her status as Wilmington drag royalty. With potential bans on drag performances under discussion in North Carolina, Pride this year took on a different, more defiant tone.
For The Assembly.
ANDREA DICENZO
www.andreadicenzo.com | @andreadicenzo
Beachgoers at Umm Suqeim night swimming beach in Dubai. In the UAE, soaring summer temperatures consistently hit over 113 degrees Fahrenheit making it difficult to enjoy the beach during the day. The Dubai Municipality opened up three night swimming beaches in 2023, equipped with floodlights and lifeguards, so people can utilize the beaches at night when it’s not as hot.
For The New York Times.
AVISHAG SHAAR-YASHUV
www.avishag-sy.com | @avishag_sy
Mourners and IDF soldiers gather around the five coffins of the Kutz family during their funeral in Gan Yavne after Hamas terrorists murdered the family on October 7 in their home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza.
For The New York Times.
SVETLANA BULATOVA
www.svetlanabulatova.com | @svetlana__bulatova
Khadeeza Getagazova stands near the grave of her father Idris Getagazov: "I had been searching for my father for 18 years". He went missing in October 1992. He was 66 years old. He was buried as an unknown man in this national cemetery.
KAMILA RUSTAMBEKOVA
www.kamilarustambekova.myportfolio.com | @kamilarustambekova
The photo series Jannat ("Paradise" in Uzbek) dives into the industry of cotton picking in Uzbekistan—a colonial project that has spanned more than a century. Despite hard manual labor, grueling working conditions, and environmental disasters caused by excessive cotton cultivation, the workers, oblivious to global consequences, remain appreciative of the opportunity to have work for a few months. Untill 2018, the Uzbek government compelled students, teachers, and other government employees to pick cotton during the harvest season to meet export quotas and generate income. This forced labor practice, which saw children out of school for extended periods and exposed them to dangerous conditions, including harmful pesticides, was widely criticized by human rights organizations.
ANDREA HERNANDEZ BRICEÑO
www.andreahb.com | @andrernandez
Believers watch the performance of the crucifixion at El Morro during the celebration of the Stations of the Cross of the Passion of Christ in the popular area of Petare, Caracas, Venezuela.
CELESTE NOCHE
www.celestenoche.com | @extracelestial
Cousins Raine Maranan, 15, Raiza Maranan, 13, Raven Maranan, 10, and Theodore Garibaldi, 1, crowd into a Fotoautomat vintage film photo booth in Montmartre, Paris.
TERRA FONDRIEST
www.terrafondriest.com | @terrafondriest
One of over 20 hummingbirds on a warm summer morning in the Ozark hills that was vying for a spot at our feeder in St. Joe, Arkansas.
ANITA POUCHARD SERRA
www.anitapouchardserra.com | @anitapouchardserra
Famous Argentine artist Nicola Costantino poses for a portrait at her studio in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
For El Pais.
VIRGINIE NGUYEN HOANG
www.virginie-nguyen.photoshelter.com | @virginie_nguyen_hoang
Skif, a Ukrainian soldier, leader of a volunteer group, is observing Russian positions located on the other side of the Dnipro river at less than three kilometers from his position. Since the liberation of Kherson city and the surrounding villages in November 2022, Skif and his team have been working on liberating the left bank of the Dnipro.
For La Libre Belgique.
ANNA LIMINOWICZ
www.annaliminowicz.pl | @annaliminowicz
Maria Puchalska, coordinator of the Institute of the Good Death. The Institute is a space for dialogue and education about mortality. In November 2022, Maria's mother passed away after a year-long battle with a chronic illness. “If I could meet my mum, even for half an hour for coffee, we would be quiet because during the year of her illness, using the rituals of the Institute of Good Death, we told each other everything,” said Maria.
For The Guardian
AMANDA LUCIER
www.amandalucier.com | @amandalucier
Tents are erected along the railroad tracks in Portland, Oregon. For some people without houses, setting up shelter in a public area along a thoroughfare is a safety strategy.
For The New York Times.
MARY GELMAN
www.marygelman.com | @marygelman
Born into an “apolitical” Russian family, this 16-year-old became an opponent of the war after the death of his uncle on the Ukrainian front. He was arrested in February after a failed Molotov cocktail attack on the Kirovsk military recruitment office and is currently awaiting trial for two 'attempted terrorist attacks. Since the beginning of the war, no fewer than 113 military enlistment offices, administrative buildings, and law enforcement offices have been attacked in Russia, as a gesture of an anti-war stance. Authorities publicly refer to these actions as “acts of terrorism,” but this label does not always translate into a formal charge.
NATALIA KEPESZ
www.nataliakepesz.de | @nataliakepesz
The reunion between Olga and her fiancé in, Lviv, Ukraine. "Since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, an Iron Curtain has closed again in the middle of Europe. How does it feel to have Russia as a neighbor? What does it mean to live now, at this time, at this global breaking point? What does everyday life look like for people who remain invisible on maps? On a journey through five countries, from Estonia to Ukraine, I met young people who are changing their life plans. Old people who fear a repetition of history and children who learn to shoot. An expedition into a little-known world—and yet into the soul of our continent."
For Zeit.
SAMAR ABU ELOUF
www.visura.co/abuelouf | @samarabuelouf
Palestinian families from the northern Gaza Strip seek refuge with their children at the UNRWA schools inside Gaza City. One young boy carrying his sister looks to the sky after hearing the sounds of airstrikes, hours after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.
For The New York Times.
ALEXANDRA HOOTNICK
www.alexandrahootnick.com | @alexandrahootnick
Portrait of Wiyot tribal members Cheryl Seidner and her grand niece Hilanea Wilkinson in Loleta, California. Under Seidner’s leadership, the city of Eureka, California was the one of first municipalities in the United States to voluntarily return land back to its indigenous caretakers. The Wiyot had spent decades pushing the city for the return of Tuluwat Island, located in the middle of northern California’s Humboldt Bay. The island is the center of the tribe’s ancestral lands and their spiritual center of the universe, as well as the site of a massacre in 1860 when white settlers murdered peaceful Wiyot celebrating their annual World Renewal Ceremony. The Wiyot are leaders in what is now termed the LandBack movement, which advocates for the protection and restoration of ancestral lands to indigenous people.
For KQED News.
MORGAN LIEBERMAN
www.thechromaticsheep.com | @thechromaticsheep
Cindy and Jo share an intimate moment in their spare bedroom during a 120-degree summer day in Blythe, California. When I visited with them, the curtains were shut and Jo was recovering from cataract surgery. After 39 years together, they finally got married this year. They met as bus drivers and Cindy fell in love immediately at first glance. Jo said she doesn’t like getting mushy, but Cindy said adamantly she never wanted to be anywhere else and Jo was her one and only. This image is part of my ongoing long term project documenting senior lesbian partnerships across the U.S.
MIKAELA MARTIN
www.mikaelamartin.com | @mikaelamartin_photog
Friends gather in Wilton Manors for their Stonewall Pride event. This year's event was forced to comply with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' drag ban, designed to "prevent the exposure of children to sexually explicit live performances.”
NAINA HELÉN JÅMA
www.nainahelen.com | @nainahelen
On October 11, 2021, the Norwegian Supreme Court made a unanimous decision: they held that the concession for a wind turbine park in the Fosen peninsula of Norway violated the cultural rights of the indigenous Sámi people by preventing them from herding reindeer in the area. However, despite this ruling, the wind turbine park continues to operate over two years later. Throughout 2023, Sámi protesters took actions including blocking the entrance to the oil ministry and occupying the parliamentary corridor. Their demands include the removal of the turbines, arguing that a transition to green energy should not come at the expense of Indigenous rights. Here, the activists mark the second anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling by occupying the parliamentary corridor.
For VG.
KIANA HAYERI
www.kianahayeri.com | @kianahayeri
Marriage is a costly affair in deeply impoverished Afghanistan, traditionally involving huge dowries, expensive gifts, and lavish parties. A national NGO organizes a mass wedding for a dozen couples in a humble wedding hall in western Kabul.
KENDRICK BRINSON
www.kendrickbrinson.com | @kendrickbrinson
Sharon Word, 83, and her husband Phill, 86, share a kiss outside of their home in Sun City, Arizona. The couple were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. Sharon and Phill are two of the nearly 40,000 residents of Sun City, Arizona, USA, an age-restricted, 55 and older community.
OFIR BERMAN
www.ofirberman.com | @ofirberman
A boy hugs his little sister in front of a wall in Tel Aviv, Israel with photos and names of the more than two hundred hostages held in Gaza.
For The Economist.
NYIMAS LAULA
www.nyimaslaula.com | @nyimaslaula
Students from an Islamic boarding school in Pekanbaru visit Al-Hakim mosque in Padang City, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
For The New York Times.
OKSANA PARAFENIUK
www.oksanaparafeniuk.com | @oksana_par
Serhiy Kopyschyk, 25, holds his 1-month-old son Marko in Pokashchiv village in the Volyn region of Ukraine. Svitlana and Serhiy got married in January this year and their son Marko was born in August. Serhiy joined the army the day after the invasion and he suffered severe injuries on July 27, 2022 in Kherson region, which resulted in him losing both legs—one above the knee, and eyesight in one eye. They live with Svitlana's parents and dream of buying their own house.
For The Washington Post.
NICKY QUAMINA-WOO
www.nickywoo.com | @nickywoophoto
Victor Monteiro, 34, with son Caio, 7, at their home in Praia, Cape Verde, West Africa. Monteiro has been the primary caretaker since his child was one, when his wife emigrated to the United States to pursue better economic opportunities. Poverty in this former Portuguese colony of enslaved people, is estimated to be upwards of 35.5%. Due to this, today, more Cape Verdeans live outside the country than inside it.
NATALIA FAVRE
www.nataliafavre.com | @nataliafavre_
Portrait of Silveria Luisa Quispe, president of the Family, Water, and Sun Commission of Collamboy Hill, during a roadblock in Purmamarca, province of Jujuy, Argentina. Indigenous communities of northern Argentina have been demonstrating against lithium mining and a controversial constitutional reform that threatens natural resources and their land rights.
Published in the BBC.
KATHY SHORR
www.kathyshorr.com | @katshorr
Tracy Brown’s son Luis D. Leon Jr., 23, was shot in 2007. The case is unsolved.
From SHOT: We the Mothers Miami 2023.
SARAH PABST
www.sarahpabst.com | @_sarahpabst_
Uruguayan gauchos move a herd of Wagyu-Angus bull-calves on a chilly early morning through a lake on the El Alamo estancia in Velazquez, Uruguay. A gaucho’s life is hard and hardly romantic, although there’s undeniable beauty in the landscapes and the steam that rises from the animals’ bodies.
For The New York Times.
SERRA AKCAN
www.serraakcan.com | @serraakcan
Two massive earthquakes struck eastern Turkiye and Syria on February 6th, 2023. At least 15 million people, including refugee communities, living in 11 cities of Turkiye have been impacted by the quakes. According to official reports more than 50,000 people died, over 106,000 people were injured, and nearly 300,000 buildings collapsed or became unlivable inside.
LAUREL CHOR
www.laurelchor.com | @laurelchor
A tank from the 10th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade, also known as "Edelweiss," fires towards Russian positions from an undisclosed location in the Donbas, Ukraine.
CRISTINA HARA
www.haracristina.com | @cristina.hara
A playground adjacent to the mine in Cerro de Pasco, Peru, one of the most contaminated cities in the world. Children have been exposed to heavy metals in their daily lives for decades, which has had serious health consequences, ranging from chronic to fatal diseases and effects on their IQ levels.
THALIA JUAREZ
www.thaliajuarez.com | @thaliaajuarez
Children play after a Saturday service at Ebenezer Haitian church in Seaford, Delaware, one and a half miles from a proposed biogas plant that would transform 250,000 tons of poultry waste each year into methane and other byproducts. Environmental and civil rights groups are challenging the plan, saying it would increase air and water pollution and pose significant health risks to nearby residents, many of whom are Black or immigrants from Haiti and Latin America who speak limited English.
For The Guardian.
JACKIE MOLLOY
www.jackiemolloy.com | @jackiemolloyphoto
People embrace at the end of the Raw Honey stoplight dating party, an event specifically for LGBTQ+ people of color at The Sultan Room in Brooklyn, New York. The attendees enjoyed the comfortable space for their community to come together to mingle and have fun.
RAISSA KARAMA RWIZIBUKA
@raissa_rkar
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country where spirituality is defined by faith and diverse religions which coexist side by side. Religious beliefs are a dynamic heritage that offers significant benefits while presenting challenges to overcome. Ultimately, they play an essential role in the life, culture, and destiny of the Congolese nation.
TARA PIXLEY
www.tarapixley.com | @tlpix
Trans, queer journalist and author Tre’vell Anderson photographed at their home in Los Angeles, California.
For HuffPost’s Culture Shifters series.
GRETA RYBUS
www.gretarybus.com | @gretarybus
Rebecca Burgess on a Maine ferry, an outtake from an assignment for T Magazine.
LAURA PROCTOR
www.lauraproctor.com | @lauraproctorphoto
Children celebrating Eid play in Lake Ontario in Toronto’s Beaches neighborhood as wildfire smoke spreads throughout the city. Wildfires continued to burn across Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and more for many months, causing Toronto's air quality to briefly rank as the worst of the world's major cities.
PETRA BASNAKOVA
@petrabasnakova
A view of the Palestinian city of Al-Eizariya through the Bedouin village of Jabal al-Baba. The residents of Jabal Al-Baba are suffering due to the violence of the Israeli army demolishing their homes. Israel's goal is to control the territory and force the Bedouins to leave their homes and expand the territory of the Ma'ale Adumim settlement. Ma'ale Adumim is a settlement whose residents have all the necessary services for life such as drinking water, electricity and hospitals, while the Bedouins of Jabal Al-Baba have almost none of these. Israel destroyed over 60 houses in the community. Some of them were destroyed more than 2 times. They also demolished a kindergarten and forbade the Bedouin to build a new one. All the Bedouins inhabiting Jabal Al-Baba are refugees from the Negev desert, before the state of Israel was declared.
LYDIA GOLDBLATT
www.lydiagoldblatt.com | @lydiagoldblatt
Self-portrait, from the series Fugue, whichengages with ideas of change in multiple ways. It reflects the personal changes and shifts in identity that accompany both motherhood and loss, whilst challenging prevailing social archetypes and taboos of motherhood. Interweaving text alongside photographs, the work disrupts and contributes to understandings of domestic space through a representation that is neither apologetic nor idealized, moving back and forth across generations and considering intertwined lives of care. Fugue draws on mothering as a central theme, and is driven by my need to explore and respond to the fundamental themes of intimacy, claustrophobia, love and loss that have been brought to the fore through the loss of my mother and becoming a mother myself.
GRETA RICO
www.gretarico.com | @gretarico
The milpa system is a polyculture that has been practiced in Mexico since pre-Hispanic times. The variety of foods grown there prevents the soil from eroding, and their combination in the transformation processes increases their nutritional value for the benefit of the people who consume them. Here, Laura arranges the maize leaves rolled up by the beans and holds the first maize of the season. This is part of a long-term visual investigation about the care of native maize in Mexico City and the relationship between the rescue of traditional agricultural methods confronting the effects of climate change.
Published in Lado B.
MERIDITH KOHUT
www.meridithkohut.com | @meridithkohut
Migrants use rafts and floats to cross the Rio Grande between Matamoros, Mexico and Brownsville, Texas. Hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers expressed urgency to make the unofficial crossing to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents, in the 24 hours before Title 42 expired. The Title 42 policy allowed immigration officials to swiftly return migrants who made unauthorized crossings, as part of emergency health measures during the Covid-19 pandemic.
For The New York Times.
DANIELLE VILLASANA
www.daniellevillasana.com | @davillasana
Hours before Title 42 is set to expire, migrants from Colombia and Mexico crawl through an opening in razor wire fencing in order to turn themselves into U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents who are posted along the border wall between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Title 42 was a public health policy first used by the Trump administration to deter the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. and expanded under Biden’s presidency.
For The Washington Post.
METTE LAMPCOV
www.mettelampcov.com | @mettelampcov
Tourists from Germany dipped in the Kern River while staying nearby at the Keysville camping area. They were aware of the river’s strong current and chose to stay in shallow areas at the edge of the river.
For The New York Times
NADEGE MAZARS
www.nadegemazars.com | @nadege_mazars
In Blanquicet, Colombia a group of young girls help each other to braid a friend’s hair.
For The Washington Post.
PAULA BRONSTEIN
www.paulaphoto.com | @pbbphoto
A colorful sunset over military graves in the Kharkiv cemetery. The military section of this large cemetery is almost full as many soldiers come from Kharkiv. Many of the recent casualties were killed in Bakhmut as Ukrainian soldiers are being hit hard on three sides by Russian forces, taking many lives.
For Getty Images.
ALEJANDRA RAJAL
www.alerajal.com | @alerajal
For this story about Mexico's City subway, we traveled through the skeleton of this great city talking to people, watching its movement, and feeling time pass in this shared territory. A personal diptych with images that seem necessary to understand how the pain, the fatigue, the love and the illusion coexist in this shared space. Valeria Mora, 21 is a student at UNAM University. She attended the 8M (International Women’s Day) March with some friends for the first time this year.
For Süddeutsche Zeitung.
DIANA ZEYNEB ALHINDAWI
www.dianazeynebalhindawi.com | @dianazeynebalhindawi
Ghanaian Special Operations soldiers conduct a raid for terrorists in a mock village near Daboya in the Savannah region of northern Ghana. The exercise marks the culmination of Flintlock, a two-week annual counter-terrorism training for African militaries, under the guidance of US and European Special Forces. This year, for the first time since it inception, Flintlock was held in Ghana, a regional powerhouse and American ally known for its relative stability and prosperity, yet recently at risk due to its porous northern border with Burkina Faso, where Al-Qaeda militants have repeatedly forced thousands of villagers to flee into Ghana.
For The Wall Street Journal.
ANNICE LYN
www.annicelyn.com | @annicelyn
An aerial view of Muslims performing Eid Al-Fitr prayer outside the Al-Bukhari Foundation Mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, and is celebrated with prayers, family reunions and other festivities by Muslims around the world.
For Getty Images.
MICHAELA VATCHEVA
www.michaelavatcheva.com | @mvatcheva
Marie Tang and her daughter Maya observe a minute of silence for the victims of the Monterey Park shooting of January 21, 2023, during a vigil in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
MARZENA SKUBATZ
www.marzenaskubatz.com | @marzenaskubatz
Two lives that began in complete intoxication because their mother drank during pregnancy, Clara and Luise Andrees have fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. They were considered lost but fought their way into life.
For ZEIT Online.
DIANA TAKACSOVA
www.diatakacsova.com | @diatakacsova
Carlos “Libo” Gonçalves tends to his bees in Covas do Barroso, Portugal. Savannah Resources, a London-based company, wants to build what could become Western Europe’s largest open-pit lithium mine in Covas do Barroso. Libo joined a local movement resisting Savannah and started composing songs to demand the protection of Barroso.
ADDIS AEMERO
www.addisaemero.com | @addis_aemero
The International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness (IFBB), founded in 1946 in Canada, has 199 affiliated nations and is one of the largest and most active international sports federations in the world. Even though bodybuilding is a famous sport worldwide it is very rare in Ethiopia. The Yonas Body Building show in Addis Ababa organizes competitions every year with different categories from junior fitness to master bodybuilding. For the first time in the history of the IFBB, the winners from the competition will represent Ethiopia in international competitions.
ALEXA HERRERA
www.alexaherrera.visura.co | @gherrale
A woman participates in the annual march for a legal and safe abortion in Mexico City. This year, Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalized abortions at the federal level, a decision that was celebrated during the mobilization through green smoke and handkerchiefs.
For the Associated Press.
AMRITA CHANDRADAS
www.amritachandradas.com | @amritachandradas
The view of Forest City from the Tanjung Kupang seagrass meadow. Forest City is built on top of Malaysia's biggest seagrass meadow. The intertidal seagrass meadow appears during the low tide and at times local gleaners from Kapung Tanjung Kupang are spotted foraging conch shells, crabs, mollusks and more for their meals.
For Bloomberg Businessweek.
ANNABELLE CHIH
www.annabelle-chih.com | @annabelle_chih
A helicopter hoists a Taiwanese national flag during Taiwan National Day on October 10 in Taipei. Taiwan National Day, also referred to as "Double Ten Day" owing to its date and month, is Taiwan's day of national celebration.
DORO ZINN
www.dorozinn.com | @dorozinn
After Russia launched their invasion of Ukraine, the ramshackle German Army has been promised a considerable 100 billion in funding in order to strengthen its own military capacity. The Bundeswehr is still very unpopular with young people and is looking desperately for new conscripts.
For Sydsvenskan.
ANTONINA MAMZENKO
www.mamzenko.com | @mamzenko
Free Palestine protesters gather at Whitehall near Parliament Square in London, UK, one of the largest protests in support of the cause in UK's history. Israel's ongoing bombardment and siege of the Gaza Strip sparked a worldwide movement in support of a ceasefire and end of the occupation.
REHAB ELDALIL
www.rehabeldalil.com | @rehabeldalil
Om Mohamed, 68, stands in the middle of a tomato-drying field during her break as a harvest collector in Luxor, Egypt. As the economy drops and currency inflation rises in Egypt, more women are forced to join the workforce including mothers, housewives and previously-retired elderly women.
MAHÉ ELIPE
www.mahelipe.com | @_mahelipe_
For twelve years, the Indigenous association led by Leocadia Utiz has organized a native corn seed fair. Farmers from participating communities are invited to exchange native seeds and forgotten Indigenous knowledge. According to Mayan beliefs, Leocadia claims to be descended from corn. Together with her family, she ensures the protection of the forest by cultivating milpa.
JENNY IRENE MILLER
www.jennyirenemiller.com | @jennyirenemiller
Model and activist Quannah Chasinghorse for the September/October cover of Outside Magazine. Image made on Han Gwich'in land in Eagle, Alaska.
SU CASSIANO
www.sucassiano.com | @su_cassiano
Romeo and Samantha are twins. Romeo transitioned two years ago as a trans masculine man. Tattoos were a part of his transition—he tattooed himself to reappropriate and love his body by choosing what to add. His sister Samantha suffered from anorexia for years. Body dysphoria and body dysmorphia are closely linked: they’re both fed by patriarchy. She has a tattoo of a butterfly, to represent both her disease and the trans community.
BESS ADLER
www.bessadler.com | @bessadler
Daisy Zhao preps for the OCB Tribute to 9-11 Heroes bodybuilding competition in White Plains, New York.
VERENA BRUENING
www.verenabruening.de | @verenabruening
3167 nautical miles in 24 days at sea with a crew of 47 women. The group of women aged between 19 and 67 sailed the brig Roald Amundsen across the Atlantic from Tenerife to Martinique in 24 days. A crossing of the Atlantic with an all-female crew never before seen on this scale. Every three days a shower was taken on deck with saltwater through a fire hose. As a measure to save drinking water, showers below deck were prohibited.
JEENAH MOON
www.jeenahmoon.com | @jeenahmoon
Roger Stone, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, prepares a martini during the New York Young Republican Club’s “Martinis and Cigars with Roger Stone” event in Manhattan.
For The New York Times.
ANALIA CID
www.analiacid.com | @analia.cid
A group of people participate in a march to the National Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina called by a large number of feminist organizations against the advance of the extreme right.
STEPHANIE FODEN
www.stephaniefoden.com | @stephaniefoden
The inside of the photographer’s motorhome sits parked on the Black Rock Desert playa two weeks after the record-breaking rain that affected Burning Man.
KATIE ORLINSKY
www.katieorlinskyphoto.com | @katieorlinsky
The Inuvialuit Reindeer Herd in Northwest Territories, Canada. Inuvialuit and Gwich'in reindeer herders from local communities work to move the herd to their calving grounds and keep the animals safe from predators. When the global pandemic further exacerbated the issue of food insecurity in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of Northwest Territories Canada, they decided to take matters into their own hands. In 2021 the Inuvialuit became the sole owners of Canada’s last and only reindeer herd, a way to limit hunting their declining caribou population, while still supporting regional food sovereignty.
For National Geographic.
EUGENIE BACCOT
www.eugeniebaccot.com | @eugenie.baccot
Celebrated on February 18, Gambian Independence Day commemorates the anniversary of Gambia's liberation from the British Empire in 1965. The day is a public holiday, and celebrations are held throughout the country. Marches are organized to McCarthy Square in Banjul, and civil dignitaries, athletes and musicians present their greetings to the President.
KAREN TORO
www.karentoro.com | @karentoroa
Thousands of women march in Quito, some wearing plants used for abortion, on September 28, the Global Day of Action for the Decriminalization of Abortion in Quito, Ecuador.
For La Periódica.
BÉNÉDICTE DESRUS
www.benedictedesrus.com | @benedicte.desrus.photography
Mariela Beatriz Pacheco Pech, 31, a player of The Amazonas of Yaxunah, has her eye on the ball during a game against Las Tercas de Itzincab at the Paseos de Itzincab Multisport Complex. The Amazonas of Yaxunah is an Indigenous women’s softball team from a small Maya community in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, formed in 2019. The Amazonas have become famous in Mexico for playing barefoot and wearing traditional Mayan dresses known as “huipiles,” but also for defying gender inequality. Playing sports isn’t considered part of a woman’s life in traditional Maya culture but they have found empowerment through sport.
SUSANA GIRON
www.susanagiron.com | @susana_giron_photo
María Dolores Martín Amaya is 77 years old. She has been caring for her husband Santiago Esteban, born in 1938, for 8 years. An untimely and aggressive stroke deprived Santiago of almost all his mobility as well as his speech. Dolores takes care of all her husband's daily needs. Although she receives one hour of home help under the Dependency Law, she only uses it for the times when she has to move Santiago, which requires physical effort and strength that she no longer has. Her whole life revolves around Santiago.
SUSANNAH IRELAND
www.susannahireland.com | @susannahireland
Members of the anti-monarchist group Republic stage a protest in Trafalgar Square in London, UK, on the day of the coronation ceremony of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Realm nations. Republic is a British republican pressure group which advocates for the replacement of the UK's monarch with a non-political head of state elected to a ceremonial or constitutional position to represent the nation, to defend democracy, to act as a referee in the political process, and to offer a non-political voice at times of crisis and celebration.
LISA MORALES WINNER
www.lisamoraleswinner.com | @lisawinnerphotography
“I resonate more with the term 'other.' I embrace the term 'colored' despite its perceived negativity, as it accurately describes my diverse identity. I think people would be better served if they looked beyond the simplified labels of 'White' or 'Black.' Surviving in the corporate world requires me to become 'white-dipped.' Especially in tech, the more you learn to look and act like other people, the better off you will be. If you allow your true self to be revealed, then people start to jump to conclusions about who you are, i.e. the stereotypical ‘Angry Black Woman.’ My son, who has Puerto Rican and Black heritage, is very dark-skinned with a mass of curly hair. He’s also learned to adjust in professional environments. He’ll change his voice whenever he is on a business phone call. He has mastered the art of being ‘White dipped’ when it matters.” –Anita Nunes
This image is from my project Colorism in America.
KALI SPITZER
www.kalispitzer.com | @kali_spitzer_photography
Self portrait, 2023.
MAGGIE SHANNON
www.maggieshannon.com | @maggiehshannon
The USA Youth Artistic Swim practice at the Hollywood Aquatic Center in Las Vegas, Nevada leading up to the Youth Artistic Swimming Championships in Greece.
For The New York Times Kids.
GEMMA MIRALDA
www.gemmamiralda.com | @gemmamiralda
Mátyás Öcsi, 72, at home in Karácsonyfalva, Romania, surrounded by skulls and skins of animals he has hunted. He is passionate about hunting and wildlife and was the president of the Karácsonyfalva hunters' association from 2007 to 2016. He goes out daily to observe and count specimens of brown bear, deer or wild boar among others, from different observation points that he himself has built in the forests.
HELENA LEA MANHARTSBERGER
www.helena-manhartsberger.com | @helena_manhartsberger
After the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kherson, Ukraine, Elena Taran fled to Kyiv at the end of November with over a hundred rescued cats, where she runs a private cat shelter in a small apartment. She herself is staying with friends.
LUJÁN AGUSTI
www.lujanagusti.com | @lujanag
This underwater image captures the macroalgae forests in the subantarctic waters of the Beagle Channel. The macroalgae forests and the sea where they grow are crucial for our subsistence. Being in contact with them, understanding, valuing, and protecting them is becoming increasingly urgent and people in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia are actively involved in their protection and revaluation. Not only are these ecosystems significant, but it is also possible to derive sustenance from these algae rich in life and power. Of course, doing so requires a responsible, sustainable, and non-extractive approach and re-establishing a relationship with nature that has often been erased by capitalist practices.
AMY OSBORNE
www.amyosbornephotography.com | @amyosborneamy
Sariel Sandoval, a member of the Bitterroot Salish, Upper Pend d’Oreille, and Diné Tribes, in Berkeley, California. Sandoval was one of 16 youth plaintiffs who successfully sued the state of Montana in Held v. Montana, arguing that lawmakers had consciously prioritized the development of fossil fuels over the well-being of Montana’s residents and the protection of natural resources.
For The Washington Post.
GEELA GARCIA
www.geelagarcia.com | @geelagarcia
It rained somewhere in Valenzuela, a city in Metro Manila in the Philippines. I saw a rainbow, and raindrops that looked like stars. Life can be good.
