Curated by Sara Ickow
The 2024 Women Photograph Year in Pictures is a testament to our global community of visual journalists. Our seventh edition of this annual retrospective brings us stories from Lebanon to Venezuela, from Ukraine to Senegal. In addition to documenting major headlines including the ongoing devastation in Gaza and Lebanon, the fight for reproductive justice and trans rights, and the ever-growing onslaught of climate-related disasters around the globe — our members also turned their lenses toward underreported stories. Sport features heavily this year, as do local celebrations, protests, and community organizing. This year’s Year in Pictures was curated by Women Photograph Managing Director and ICP Associate Director of Exhibitions Sara Ickow — you can pre-order the 2024 Women Annual here, and donate to Women Photograph here to support our continuing work to diversify the visual media industry.
MICHELLE GACHET
www.michellegachet.com | @mgachet
Siekopai women wash clothes and prepare for the day during the third cross-border encounter in the ancestral territory of Pë’këya. The Siekopai Nation achieved a historic land-back victory in the Amazonian rainforest.
For Amazon Frontlines.
LAURA MENASSA
www.lauramenassa.com | @laura.menassa
An excerpt from the photographer’s journal:
November 14, 2024
Israeli airstrike on the southern suburb of Beirut on November 14, 2024, captured from my friend’s place. Since September 2023, Israeli strikes on Lebanon have intensified, expanding from the south of Lebanon to the suburbs of Beirut and targeting civilian areas.
I needed to see the strikes with my own eyes, getting closer while detaching myself from the sound that frightened me. Visualizing the bombs was a way for me to understand and accept the reality, as if putting a face to a voice.
KSENIA MAKSIMOVA
www.kseniamaksimova.com | @kseniamaksmova
Men hang the head of a sacrificial bull on a sacred oak tree during a large field prayer of the Chuvash pagans, Tatarstan, Russia. Before the forced Christianization of the Chuvash—the Indigenous people of Russia—in the 17th century, these people adhered to their traditional pagan faith. Some of the Chuvash managed to preserve this faith by leaving their native lands and taking refuge in remote villages.
MICHELLE GUSTAFSON
www.michellegustafsonphoto.com | @michellegustafson
Kat Graves, 22, seen dressed as Carrie (from the movie of the same name), participates in a costume contest in downtown Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The event was part of the 25th annual Blobfest in honor of The Blob (1958), the cult classic sci-fi horror movie with scenes filmed in and around the towns of Phoenixville, Downingtown, and Valley Forge. Attendees—whether longtime fans or those new to the film—came together to enjoy a street fair of themed vendors, a costume contest, and various screenings of the movie.
For The New York Times.
OLAOLUWA OLOWU
olaoluwaolowu.mypixieset.com | @olaoluwa_olowu
Every Sunday evening in Jamestown, a district of Accra, Ghana, the streets ignite with the daring stunts of young motorbike riders. Like this young man, pictured mid-wheelie, they show the fearless energy and vibrant community spirit that define Accra’s artistic heart.
SIMONA SUPINO
simonasupino.com | @simsupino
Amputee football training at the Pokrova Lviv club, Lviv, Ukraine. As a result of the war, in which many have suffered bodily injuries and related amputations, amputee football is becoming more and more popular.
NICKY QUAMINA-WOO
www.nickywoo.com | @nickywoophoto
Jason McLaughlin, a native of Cayman Brac, sits on a picnic table overlooking the Caribbean Sea. Cayman Brac, one of three islands that make up the Cayman Islands, has a population of fewer than 2,000, only 30 percent being Caymanian by birth.
KRISTINA BARKER
www.kristinabarker.com | @kristinabarker
The aurora borealis illuminates the night sky above Woodland Park, Colorado, in the early hours of May 11. The most powerful solar storm to impact Earth since 1989 created an aurora visible in places around the globe that typically do not see such events.
KATIE BASILE
www.katiebasile.com | @katiebasilephoto
Billie Jean Andrew, 13, lives in Nunapitchuk, one of the 144 environmentally threatened communities in Alaska. Billie Jean’s community is in the early stages of relocating after losing much of its land to erosion and permafrost thaw.
HANNAH YOON
www.hannahyoon.com | @hanloveyoon
Outside the HanNam Mart in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Asher Kim (left), 5, walks with his mom, Gina Bang, 33; his brother, Shia Kim, 2; his dad, Main Kim, 37; and his sister, Loma, 1. Fort Lee is in Bergen County which has the highest concentration of Koreans in the USA and continues to grow.
For The New York Times.
VANESSA VETTORELLO
www.vanessavettorello.it | @vanessavettorello_photos
Angelica has strabismus, which requires her to wear an eye patch for about four hours each morning. Her grandmother was the first to gently place the eye patch on her, and she finds a special connection with her aunt, who also had strabismus. This photograph is part of a long-term project on strabismus, Wandering Star.
AGNESE MORGANTI
www.aggiemorganti.com | @aggiemorganti
Fashion influencers and costume makers assemble in Brescia, Italy, for a historical costuming event presented by Historical Rêverie. The organization promotes the knowledge and study of turn-of-the-century European fashion by hosting gatherings where participants can wear historical outfits.
ELISABETTA ZAVOLI
www.elisabettazavoli.com | @elizavola
Psychotherapist Cinzia Andreini, 56, quietly observes her patient Angela Marraghini, 28, sitting on a rock in Italy’s Foreste Casentinesi National Park. Angela had been in therapy for some years to treat anxiety and emotional dependence when Dr. Andreini proposed Therapeutic Forest Bathing. Over the past decade and a half, global scientific communities have produced more and more studies acknowledging the healing “power” of forests on humans, and in 2019 the term Forest Therapy was coined. The forest becomes the therapist, while the psychotherapist serves to facilitate the patient’s connection with the forest by inviting sensorial and proprioceptive experiences. Moreover, what scientists are observing is that the forest’s restorative effect grows in proportion to the ecosystem’s biocomplexity. Foreste Casentinesi National Park is one of the primeval forests of Europe, with the highest biocomplexity coefficient in Italy.
For Wellcome.
FATIMA TUJ JOHORA
www.fatimatujjohora.com | @fatimatujjohora
A protester waves the Bangladeshi and Palestinian flags from a pole during the August march “One point, One demand” against Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her government. The demonstration in Dhaka by thousands of people demanded justice for the victims killed in recent countrywide clashes. The month prior to the march, Bangladeshis made history when student protesters led a mass uprising that deposed Hasina and the Awami League, a government which had grown increasingly dictatorial over the course of 15 years in power.
MALIN FEZEHAI
www.malinfezehai.net | @malinfezehai
During his free time, Duol Ter, 16, rears pigeons in a compound he shares with eight other cousins in Dadaab, Kenya. He learned how to care for the birds from a neighbor and created makeshift enclosures using former containers for U.S. aid. The family has been approved for resettlement in Australia, but the process can take several years. Duol says he is okay with leaving the pigeons when the time comes, remarking that “there are pigeons in Australia, too.”
For The Washington Post.
CHALINEE THIRASUPA
www.chalineethirasupa.com | @chalinee.thirasupa
A baby long-tailed macaque lies sedated as veterinarians from Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation carry out a sterilization procedure to help contain the growing macaque population in urban areas and tourist spots of the city of Lopburi. In May, local authorities stepped up efforts to curb the unruly monkeys, including boosting a sterilization campaign that had begun during the pandemic. “Our goal is to neuter all the monkeys, 100 percent of them,” said local veterinarian Patarapol Maneeorn. Following the procedure, the monkeys are permanently relocated to a designated area. Five months into the government’s initiative, Lopburi’s primate pandemonium was finally brought under control, with around 1,600 monkeys in captivity.
For Reuters.
JUDY GRIESEDIECK
www.judygpix.com | @judygpix
Navigation by boat on the Grey Lake, in Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park, brings visitors closer than they could have imagined to the Grey Glacier, some extending their hands in an attempt to touch its chilly surface.
REBECCA CONWAY
www.rebeccaconway.com | @rebeccajconway
Akerke Zhan, 35, milks the family’s camels at their home in Tastubek, on Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea coast. Although her husband, Nur, works as a fisherman, the family increasingly relies on income from raising camels and hosting tourists. Climate change and water mismanagement have pulled water from the Aral Sea, leaving villagers surrounded by desert and increasingly far from the shore. This has impacted the fishing industry, on which many local families rely, and has forced some residents to leave the area altogether.
WHITNEY SNOW
www.whitneysnowphotography.com | @whitneytsnow
Blleu Heavyrunner, 5, of the Blackfeet Nation, extends his arm from a car window to gently pet his uncle’s horse, Smudge. The horse approached the vehicle during feeding time at Kipp Ranch, in northern Montana.
LOUIZA VRADI
www.louizavradi.com | @louizavradi
A photograph taken by a drone shows an animal drinking water at Fanaco Lake, on the Italian island of Sicily, following a drought.
For Reuters.
JULIE DERMANSKY
www.jsdart.com | @juliedermansky
Category 2 floodwater recedes from a cemetery in Dulac, Louisiana, the day after the storm surge from Hurricane Francine made landfall in Terrebonne Parish. With the threat of increasingly powerful hurricanes due to climate change, property insurance prices continue to rise. In some coastal areas, coverage is no longer offered at any price.
ADRIENNE SURPRENANT
www.adriennesurprenant.com | @adrienne_surprenant
Sohad Ali Qetish, wounded in an Israeli strike that killed 16 people on September 25, shows the spot where his mother died on October 5, in Maaysra, Keserwan, Lebanon.
For Le Monde.
CLAIRE THOMAS
www.clairethomasphotography.com | @claire_thomas_photography
Yasser Haider, 28, shares a quiet moment of affection with a horse at the Springs of Hope Foundation’s equine center in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Haider was born without legs and lives with other physical challenges. As part of a group of less-abled men, Yasser visits the Horses for Hope project once a week. The equine therapy program is providing much-needed support and relief to survivors of ISIS captivity, among others affected by conflict and displacement in the region. Through the healing power of horses, the Springs of Hope Foundation is helping individuals reclaim their strength, overcome trauma, and find hope in the midst of despair.
For Newsweek Magazine.
ANJA MATTHES
www.anjamatthes.com | @anja_matthes
The House of Bangy Cunt is an ongoing documentary photography project exploring the New York City kiki ballroom scene, a community organized by LGBTQ youth of color ages 14 to 25. This vibrant subculture offers youth who face violence, homelessness, racism, and homophobia a vital support system and an alternative to high-risk behaviors. Approximately 25 active kiki “houses” in NYC act as surrogate families, led by “mothers” and “fathers” who empower and educate members. Zay, a member since age 19, highlights the ballroom’s significant role in fostering resilience, self-expression, and unity.
KAREN TORO
www.karentoro.com | @karentoroa
Indigenous midwives Luzmila Bonilla and Martha Arotingo examine hands-on the positioning of Jenny Morales’s baby, in San Pedro canton, Cotacachi, Ecuador.
For El País.
HANNAH CAUHÉPÉ
www.hannahcauhepe.com | @hannahcoolsmooth
Players at the Europa Football Club in Barcelona warm up before practice. Women players tear their ACLs eight to ten times more than their male counterparts. The recovery is so long and the epidemic so widespread that football organizations are finally investing in related research.
For The Guardian.
CHERISS MAY
www.cherissmay.com | @cherissmay
Howard University students, including members of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, dance at an event on The Yard, ahead of an expected appearance by Vice President Kamala Harris, on November 5.
For The New York Times.
VICTORINE ALISSE
victorine-alisse.format.com | @victorine_alisse_
The Armenian community gathers for Mass at the cathedral of Saint James, in Jerusalem, to honor the feast of the church’s namesake. For two years, this ancient community has been struggling against the real estate greed of Israeli settlers in their quarter of the Holy City. In the context of the Israeli offensive in Gaza, they fear an escalation of violence in East Jerusalem.
For Libération.
TACE STEVENS
www.tacestevens.com | @tacestevens
Spinifex man, Lydon Stevens, teaches his son Keenan how to cook kangaroo, at Cundeelee in Western Australia. This photograph was taken during the filming of a short documentary, Anangu Way. The film follows Keenan as he travels 11 hours, from Perth to Cundeelee, to spend a week with his father and learn how to make a traditional spear thrower (miru). The last time Keenan was out bush with Lydon, he was 6 years old. He is now 35 and a father of 3.
ANNICE LYN
www.annicelyn.com | @annicelyn
Malaysian wrestler Nor “Phoenix” Diana (right) competes in the ring against Marika Kobashi, of Japan, during the APAC Wrestling Women’s Championship in Puchong, Selangor, Malaysia. “Phoenix,” the country’s first Muslim woman to be a full-time wrestler, challenges gender stereotypes in the male-dominated sport. She faces both female and male opponents as she aspires to leave her mark in the World Wrestling Entertainment arena.
For Getty Images.
ARIN YOON
www.arinyoon.com | @arinyoon
Anne Merete Gaup, a Sámi woman from Norway, prepares for a ceremony led by Korean American shaman Helena Soholm in Copenhagen. Participants select pieces of torn fabric in red, blue, white, yellow, and green, representing the five directions. In a slow procession, they move to rhythmic drumming toward a tree at the entrance to the ceremonial site, tying the fabrics to the tree. According to Helena, “Since there are a lot of people there who are from different cultures, we need some kind of activity to pull us together so that everybody’s already setting themselves up, at their unconscious level, to trigger something deep in our minds.”
For NPR.
ABHI CHINNIAH
www.ramiistudio.com | @ramiistudio
For many migrant, immigrant, and refugee communities in New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa), the journey is to preserve the past while navigating new identities. For Hanah, who spent her childhood in Algeria and Saudi Arabia before migrating, the memories and connections to her homelands remain strong. Standing against the New Zealand landscape in clothing that reflects her heritage, she considers her evolving experience of “home,” now stretched between two worlds. The ink on her wrist reads “Amazigh,” honoring her identity as an Algerian Amazigh person and her ongoing journey of belonging and of what it means to be a Kiwi. Hanah is from my photo essay on migrant, immigrant, and refugee groups in New Zealand, A Migrant’s Path.
ANNE MOFFAT
www.annemoff.com | @annemoff
Lillian Bojac, 80, stands with her newly planted veggie garden in front of Yallourn “W” Power Station in Victoria, Australia, situated in Gunai-Kurnai country two hours east of Melbourne. Yallourn has supplied coal-fired power to Victoria for more than a century. The old administration building—which houses the offices of the former State Electricity Commission—has recently been repurposed by locals like Lillian to establish a shared community space, demonstrating the region’s ongoing industrial and cultural transformation. Yallourn Power Station is slated to close in mid-2028 as part of Australia’s move toward clean energy, bringing further change to the Latrobe Valley. This photograph is from the project The Valley, which documents the efforts to redefine the region—once an epicenter of Victoria’s brown coal–fired electricity industry.
BESS ADLER
www.bessadler.com | @bessadler
On April 17, the Guinness World Record was awarded for the greatest-ever number of ballerina dancers to go en pointe simultaneously. The record was achieved by the Youth America Grand Prix dance program (USA) at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.
CELESTE NOCHE
www.celestenoche.com | @extracelestial
Theodore Garibaldi watches sea lions from the old cannery docks in Astoria, Oregon.
ANASTASIA RUDENKO
www.anastasiarudenko.com
This is a training room for working in a SCHIZO (punishment cell) in a men’s prison. On February 16, the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug announced the death of Alexei Navalny, the leader of the Russian opposition. He was serving a 19-year sentence in a “special regime” penal colony above the Arctic Circle. Two days before his death, he was sent to a SHIZO for the 27th time; in total, he spent more than 300 days in the punishment cell. This photograph is dedicated to all political prisoners.
ALEJANDRA RAJAL
www.alerajal.com | @alerajal
Jorge Alberto Ramos Sánchez, 40, cleans the inside of a water tank, in which water has been sitting inaccessible for weeks. The Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City has been placing these large tanks in neighborhoods affected by water cuts.
ACACIA JOHNSON
www.acaciajohnson.com | @acacia.johnson
Clown fish emerge from an anemone in Indonesia’s Komodo National Park. Komodo is part of the Coral Triangle, a biodiverse region home to 76 percent of the world’s coral species.
NATALIA FAVRE
www.nataliafavre.com | @nataliafavre_
Indigenous activist Aurora Choque washes clothes while her granddaughter Valentina plays in the river, in Coranzulí, Jujuy, Argentina. The project Maloneras, Seeds of Resistance focuses on Choque’s struggle to protect her land from exploitation and destruction by lithium mining. The photographs highlight the crucial importance of water for those living in this extremely dry area and the key role Indigenous communities play in preserving natural resources, all within the context of the worsening human rights situation in Argentina.
TERRA FONDRIEST
www.terrafondriest.com | @terrafondriest
At my son’s request, I try blowing on his belly with a backpack leaf blower while cleaning up leaves around our home, outside the small rural Ozarks town of St. Joe, Arkansas.
SAMAR ABU ELOUF
visura.co/abuelouf | @samarabuelouf
Ruba Abu Jibba lost an eye in a shelling bombardment as her family was fleeing Israeli tanks in Gaza. She and some other badly wounded Gazans have survived a war that has killed tens of thousands, making it to Qatar for medical treatment.
KATYA MOSKALYUK
@kathryn_moskalyuk
Ivanna’s husband, company commander Volodymyr Lemeshchuk, died on April 20, 2022, at age 23, in a battle near Popasna in the Luhansk region, Ukraine. The officer managed to evacuate his wounded comrades from the battlefield, but he was mortally wounded.
DORO ZINN
www.dorozinn.com | @dorozinn
At Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, a couple watches a spontaneous demonstration against the war in Gaza and the recent Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Berlin has a big Lebanese and Palestinian diaspora, whose protests authorities and politicians have suppressed and deemed generally “anti-Semitic.”
DAWN E. LEBEAU
www.dawneelebeau.com | @dawn_e_lebeau
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe 2024 Annual Labor Day Wacipi (pow wow) evening grand entry. The Young Men’s Fancy Dancers make their way through the arena in Eagle Butte, South Dakota.
SALGU WISSMATH
www.salguwissmath.com | @salguwissmath
Campers Emma* (left), 14, and Eva, 12, walk back to their cabin with house leaders Evie Wise and Alex Ysaguirre (right) after swimming in the lake on the second day of Color Splash Out, among the few LGBTQ summer camps in Texas. It was Emma’s first time back in Texas in nearly a year. Her family left when the state outlawed gender-affirming care for transgender youth like herself, even threatening to remove children from their parents. Emma returned to attend Color Splash Out, one of the few places in Texas where she believed she would not have to be afraid.
For San Antonio Express-News and The San Francisco Chronicle.
*The Chronicle uses a pseudonym to identify Emma because of her parents’ concern for her safety.
CAMILLA RUTHERFORD
www.camillarutherford.co.nz | @camillarutherford_photography
“Making honey out of dog shit” is what happens in our workshop on the farm. The workshop represents five generations of Kiwi ingenuity with Number 8 Wire—to fix anything, make anything, create anything out of what’s in that shed. If spaces could talk, imagine the stories the shed would tell!
GRETA RICO
www.gretarico.com | @gretarico
Celebration of the day of the dead in the pantheon of Yancuitlalpan, Puebla, Mexico.
LAUREN GRABELLE
www.laurengrabelle.com | @laurengrabelle
From a project documenting the environmental and agricultural changes in Montana's Flathead Valley. Detroit riprap lines the banks of the Flathead River in NW Montana. Relics of erosion control experiments of the 1950s are visible before the spring runoff from the snowy mountains raises the river, while geese gather in a farmer's field. It is always amazing to me when I come across more of these relics from another time: another time of automobile manufacturing, and another time of environmental stewardship here in the stunning Flathead Valley. It is a good reminder that a "clean and healthful environment", as guaranteed to Montanans in the state Constitution, is a continual work in progress and learning curve.
MAGGIE SHANNON
www.maggieshannon.com | @maggiehshannon
Roberto Cabrera, Jr., at Dodger Stadium, in Los Angeles, shows off his new tattoo ahead of the team’s World Series matchup with the Yankees.
For The New York Times.
NATALIE BEHRING
www.nataliebehring.com | @natalie.bettina
A girl rides her pony at the first rodeo of the summer in Driggs, Idaho.
PAROMA BASU
www.basu-photo.com | @__paromabasu__
Mountain shepherdess Aina Lizarza Solana, 27, looks out on hundreds of sheep grazing in the snowy mountains all around her, in Vouvry, Valais, Switzerland. Aina and her shepherd dog, Gaucha, have spent five months living at elevations of up to 2000 meters, taking care of almost 800 animals. For thousands of years, in many countries of the world, shepherds have moved livestock to higher altitudes to tide over the hot summer months.
JENNY IRENE MILLER
www.jennyirenemiller.com | @jennyirenemiller
Victor Williams, 10, Chris Williams, 9, Lian Martin, 11, Karl Nickoli, 9, and Evrit Martin, 9—all of Ruby, Alaska—stand for a picture at Culture Camp on the shore of the Yukon River.
For High Country News.
CAROLINE YANG
www.carolineyang.com | @carolineyangphoto
Multiple-exposure portrait of Ernesto Londono, New York Times writer and author of a new book, Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics. While Londono was working as a bureau chief in Rio de Janeiro, PTSD and suicidal depression pushed him to attend an ayahuasca retreat. Through his book, he shares his experiences and explores the possibilities for using psychedelics to treat mental health conditions.
For Mpls.St.Paul Magazine.
LUCÍA PRIETO
lucia-prieto.myportfolio.com | @lucia.prieto
Federico Amador, an Argentine competitor in the 24th IGLA Championship, Buenos Aires. The world championship of aquatic sports was held for the first time in South America, with almost 800 participants from more than 18 countries.
JACKIE MOLLOY
www.jackiemolloy.com | @jackiemolloyphoto
Jeanelle Adams, 36, and her daughter Laila Burwell, 10, outside their home in Newark, New Jersey. Adams was misdiagnosed with eczema after a rash developed on her breast in 2020. The doctors did not do an MRI or mammogram. It was not until 2022 that she was properly diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer, at age 33.
For The New York Times.
ANA PALACIOS
www.ana-palacios.com | @anapalaciosphoto
Lisa Massahi and Parsa Massahi, founders of the Polarhagen project, with their three children, Jord, Arda, and Balder, at the greenhouse just built at Offersøykammen, Lofoten Islands, Norway. In Norway, 400 farms close every year, and young people struggle to buy farms because of the expense. Lisa and Parsa are creating a vegan and biodynamic farm in a dairy barn turned greenhouse, north of the Arctic Circle. Their dream is a new model of living.
AMIRA KARAOUD
www.amirakaraoud.com | @amirakaraoud
Dienaba Sylla, mourns her son Alpha Yero Tounkara, a student who was killed during a protest against the postponement of the February 25 presidential election in Saint-Louis, during his funeral, in Dindefelo, Senegal, February 16, 2024.
For Reuters.
ASMAA WAGUIH
www.asmaawaguih.com | @asmaawaguih
Ivana Skayki, 2, who suffered third-degree burns over nearly half of her body following an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, sits with a toy next to her mother in a hospital room at Geitaoui Hospital in Beirut.
AZIZIAH DIAH APRILYA
www.aziziahprilya.com | @aziziahprilya
A woman lights a sulo, a candle made of candlenuts and cotton, during the Beppa Pitu ritual, a procession before the planting of rice. The tradition is passed down by women within the Pajjaiang community of Indonesia.
MADELINE GRAY
www.madelinegrayphoto.com | @madelinepgray
Billy Welch carves a mask in the workshop behind his store, Hunting Boy Wood Carving, in Robbinsville, North Carolina. Welch, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, has become renowned for his renditions of the seven traditional Cherokee clan masks: Bird, Deer, Wolf, Blue, Long Hair, Paint, and Wild Potato. He also teaches carving, beadwork, and weaving to local high school students to foster an appreciation for traditional crafts.
For AARP.
BEA KOVÁCS
www.beakovacs.com | @photobybeakovacs
Dániel Karsai, a Hungarian constitutional lawyer with ALS, publicly campaigned for the right to die with dignity after his diagnosis in 2022. He argued that Hungary’s ban on euthanasia violated his human rights. Despite his efforts, his appeals were rejected. Karsai’s euthanasia campaign sparked a political and legal debate in Hungary. His case was supported by various political parties and activists and attracted public attention, but the country’s laws remained unchanged. He died in September. The photograph is from my series on Karsai’s battle.
KASIA ŚLESIŃSKA
www.slesinska.com
Agata Sybilska, one of Poland’s most renowned matchmakers, holds two glazed-clay birds at her office in Warsaw.
ROBERTA VALERIO
www.robertavalerio.com | @robertavalerio.photo
Schoolgirls ages 10 to 15 wander around gardens cloaked in snow at the Maison d’éducation de la Légion d’honneur, a public institution in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. The school welcomes descendants of decorated national orders. In this timeless place, 471 girls are subjected to strict discipline, including limited access to smartphones.
MARZENA ABRAHAMIK
www.marzena-abrahamik.com | @marzenaabrahamik
This photographic project is driven by extraction and its environmental impact, labor and gender inequality, and the current global energy crisis. As the United States continues to diversify its economy and establish alternatives to fossil fuels, the images highlight female miners’ roles within heavy industry—from close-ups of minerals to open landscapes and from panoramic views of communities to environmental portraits.
ALEXANDRA HOWLAND
www.alexandrahowland.com | @alexandrahowland
Yiorgos Apostolopoulos, 26, a firefighter with the Rodopolis Volunteer Fire Department, East Attica, Greece.
YAHEL GAZIT
www.yahelgazit.com | @yaheligazit
In Carmei Yossef, Israel/Palestine, Israeli and Palestinian dancers rehearse a choreographed performance aimed at promoting peace and opposing the war in Gaza. The choreography, created collaboratively, is intended as a universal advocation for peace.
ORE HUIYING
www.orehuiying.com | @orehuiying
A flock of great cormorants roosts in trees in the wetlands along the Mekong River, Stung Treng province, Cambodia. The photograph is part of a project investigating the cumulative social and environmental impact of dams built on the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia, supported by the National Geographic Explorer grant.
RAÏSSA KARAMA
@dear_rkar
Being a woman in my community is difficult enough, and being an independent woman or a woman who knows what she wants is against tradition and involves many prejudices. I’m not trying to oppose or change tradition, I’m just trying to show that it’s very important for a woman to choose the life she wants to lead, to be the one who decides her future and whom she wants to spend the rest of her life with.
NATHALIE BERTRAMS
www.nathaliebertrams.de | @nathaliebertrams
A school uniform sweater and a carpet hang out to dry in a backyard in Khutsong, a township of the South African mining town Carletonville. Khutsong, like many townships, faces challenges such as inadequate housing, high unemployment, and limited access to essential services, including water, sanitation, and electricity.
STELLA KALININA
www.stellakalinina.com | @stella_kalinina
Luke Johnson and his husband, Osbey Jackson, in the kitchen of their longtime home in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Along with several other longtime tenants in their building, they stand to lose their affordable rental unit. The owner has decided to sell, and state funds for land trusts have fallen through.
For CalMatters.
KATE MEDLEY
www.katemedley.com | @katemedley
At Snowdoun in Columbus, Mississippi, Judy Robbins participates as a host in the Spring Pilgrimage, an annual tradition of more than 80 years that highlights significant historic sites and cultures of the antebellum South. But these days, some are finding it difficult to justify a trip to see a gauzy version of the region’s past that does not account for the suffering, injustice, and violence of the slave labor that built and ran homes like Snowdoun.
For The New York Times.
LENA MUCHA
www.lenamucha.com | @lena_mucha
Youreisi (left) and Claudia are among the Indigenous transgender women working on coffee plantations in Risaralda, Colombia. Due to their transgender identity, these women were displaced from their original communities, the Embera Chamí and Katío. I first met them in 2018. In Santuario and on its surrounding coffee farms, they have found a new way to live and to express their gender and ethnic identities.
TRACY BARBUTES
www.tracybarbutes.com | @tracybarbutes
A. Macias, a firefighter with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, smiles after completing her tasks at the Whittle Vegetation Management Program Prescribed Burn, on Bear Mountain near Angels Camp. This photograph is part of my long-term project honoring women in wildland firefighting.
VIKTORIA PEZZEI
www.viktoriapezzei.com | @viktoriapezzei
Volunteer Petra Lange navigates to a location where a fawn may be hiding, flagged by a thermal drone, to rescue the animal from unintentional mowing death. The team uses the Thermal Drones app, which logs temperature anomalies in agricultural fields. The team marks the spot with a brightly colored pole, ensuring the animal can be safely released after the mowing is complete.
TARINA RODRIGUEZ
www.tarinarodriguez.com | @tarophotopty
Professor Otoniel González stands on the edge of change—literally and figuratively—on Gardi Sugdub, a Panamanian island caught in the grip of the climate crisis. Rising seas and overcrowding threaten the homes cherished by the Indigenous Guna people for generations. While many young residents see moving to the mainland as inevitable, elders like Otoniel hold fast to the belief that the island will endure.
For de Volkskrant.
LAURE ANDRILLON
www.laureandrillon.com | @laureandrillon
Students at International Community Elementary School and Think College Now Elementary School, in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, California, spend recess in the Cesar Chavez Living Schoolyard. Traditional asphalt-covered schoolyards are hot, and getting hotter, yet only a tiny fraction of California’s grade school students has access to play in tree-covered areas. On a typical 90-degree day under full sun, asphalt can hit 150 degrees and rubber-surfaced play areas can reach 165 degrees, according to research by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, while grass reaches only 95 degrees.
For CalMatters.
KRISTINE NYBORG
www.kristinenyborg.ca | @kristine_nyborg
Haitian immigrant Berwin Sydney with his son Sael at a math event at their local school in Ottawa. Immigrating to Canada has been difficult for the teenager, and Sydney takes a minute to comfort him on a gym bench.
For Morgenbladet.
ELLEN KOK
www.netherlight.org
Women wait for Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz to speak in the stadium of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team during an Early Vote Rally of the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania.
MEHRI JAMSHIDI
@mehri.jamshidi
Turkmen audiences gather at Aq Qala horseback riding resort in northern Iran, where there is a passionate tradition of betting on horse races.
MAUREEN GATHONI
@maureenwild_
Park rangers Joan, Paustine, and Joel (left to right) take a rest while on patrol at Mount Kenya National Park in Nyeri county, Kenya.
VALERIA LUONGO
www.valerialuongo.com | @va.luo
A turkey is brought from the main church of Cuetzalan del Progreso, Puebla, Mexico, to the spot where a pole will be erected as part of the Danza de los Voladores. In this pre-Hispanic ritual, five participants climb a 30-meter pole while secured with ropes, jumping off head first and revolving around the pole as they move toward the ground. The turkey is placed alive at the base as a sacrifice to mother earth. It is believed that if the gods take the turkey’s life, no accidents will occur throughout the year.
SELIA MONTES
www.seilamontes.com | @seila_montes
Elio, 16, in his room following a mastectomy as part of his transition. He attended a gender clinic for two years prior to the surgery.
PRISCILA RIBEIRO
www.priscilaribeiro.com | @priscilaribeiroft
Angélica, a Venezuelan Indigenous migrant of the Warao ethnicity, with her daughters in a settlement at Cuiabá, Brazil.
WARA VARGAS
www.waravargas.com | @wara_vargas
Marina Justiniano Jaldin, 68, a volunteer firefighter from the Los Soto community in the Chiquitano forests of Bolivia.
MARIAN CARRASQUERO
www.mariancarrasquero.com | @mariancaa
People wait outside the Adolfo Navas voting station in Las Minas de Baruta, Venezuela, as the tables close and votes begin to be counted. The crowd chants “this government will fall,” as the witnesses were not being let in and some voters were left outside past the 6:00 pm closing time. The outcome, six more years with Nicolás Maduro as president, was disputed by the opposition, and the United States has said that it has “serious concerns” about the legitimacy of the election outcome.
For The New York Times.
DEANNE FITZMAURICE
www.deannefitzmaurice.com | @deannefitzmaurice
Six months after the August 8, 2023, wildfire in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, the cleanup remains a complex task with a long way to go. There is an effort to save historic buildings. Much of the town was destroyed. The residents of the island are still struggling after this catastrophe—the deadliest fire in the United States in a century, which resulted in 101 confirmed deaths.
For NPR.
LINA COLLADO GARCÍA
www.linacollado.com | @lina_collado
Gaby, 40, has worked as an assistant busser and food preparer for 14 years at a Jackson, Wyoming, restaurant popular with tourists and locals. Gaby and her husband and daughter have moved within the county six times, all due to rent increases. “If we lose our house, we won’t be able to stay in Jackson,” she said. This photograph is part of the long-term project A Disappearing Home.
GEVI NOVIYANTI
www.gevinoviyanti.com | @gevinoviyanti
Survivors of child marriage like Manda, 26 (married at 17), express regret over lost dreams but remain committed to breaking the cycle, advocating for greater opportunities and choices for the next generation. In Cirebon, West Java, the Religious Court records an average of 400 marriage dispensation applications annually, primarily due to out-of-wedlock pregnancies. However, many unregistered or “secret” marriages (nikah siri) are arranged by parents to bind young couples after premarital relations or pregnancies or to avoid court fees. Economic pressures also drive child marriage, with families believing it will alleviate financial burdens. In fact, young brides, unprepared both mentally and financially, miss opportunities for higher education and better employment, thus perpetuating structural poverty.
RACHEL WOOLF
www.rachelwoolfphotography.com | @rachelwoolfphoto
Aleah, 13, poses for a portrait after her baby shower at an Airbnb in Cascade, Idaho. A new state law requires parental consent for nearly all health care for minors. When she was 36 weeks pregnant, Aleah went to the emergency room with contractions. She had recently moved in with her great-aunt, who was not yet her legal guardian. In most cases, the physician would have conducted a pelvic exam to determine whether labor had begun. With no adult guardian available to authorize Aleah’s care, the physician instead called the hospital’s lawyers. Reflecting one of the new law’s quirks, while Aleah cannot consent for her own care, she is the parent who can do so for her own baby.
For The Washington Post.
PAOLA CHAPDELAINE
www.paolachapdelaine.com | @paola.chapdelaine
A young Jewish man holds onto an Israeli flag near the Gaza Solidarity Encampment established on April 17 at Columbia University, New York, in reaction to the Israel–Hamas war. The encampment was dismantled by the NYPD in the early hours of April 30, after dozens of protestors broke into and occupied Hamilton Hall.
REJEKY KENE
www.rejekykene.com | @ekhy_ken
Rurung, 45, from the Kajang tribe of Tana Toa, Sulawesi, Indonesia, after attending Andingingi, an annual ritual to ask for forgiveness from the forest. A traditional practice of the Kajang, it focuses on restoring ecological balance and emphasizes the importance of forest conservation and sustainability. The most easily recognizable characteristic of the Kajang is their all-black clothing. The color black symbolizes simplicity, humility, and respect for ancestors. Among the Kajang, the Dalam group is more closed off to outside influences, like technology. They prefer a simple life in harmony with nature.
ROSA PANGGABEAN
www.rosapanggabean.com | @rosa_panggabean
The “glamping” (glamorous camping) area in Nusantara, Indonesia’s future capital. This campsite is used by the president and ministers on their visits to oversee the city’s construction or attend ceremonies. The photograph is from my personal project about the new capital, New Vistas.
ELKE SCHOLIERS
elkescholiers.com | @elkescholiers
As they move toward New Delhi from the Shambhu border area of Punjab, India, protesting farmers look for drones spraying tear gas. The farmers reignited their demands for guaranteed crop prices and a doubling of their income, following the government’s failure to address key concerns from previous demonstrations. The renewed movement, primarily led by farmers from Haryana and Punjab, is set to include a nationwide rural strike in the push for legislation to ensure minimum prices for all agricultural produce.
SANDRA HERNÁNDEZ
www.vitaflumen.com | @vita_flumen
Women visit Istanbul’s Blue Mosque as part of a tourist group. This photograph is from a personal project about contemporary tourism.
XIMENA NATERA
www.ximenanatera.com | @menanatera
King Gallo, of Oasis Pro Wrestling in Berkeley, California, at a bus stop before a match. A Berkeley resident from Mexico, King Gallo lives a double life as a professional by day and a masked luchador by night.
For Berkeleyside/CatchLight Local
YADIRA HERNÁNDEZ-PICÓ
yhphotosdesign.com | @yadiraphotos
Nereida “Bohicati Jusuana” Matos receives her Taíno name during a ceremony in the waters of a river in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. The Taíno Indigenous peoples were declared extinct by the 18th century as a result of the Spanish conquest and annihilation of the pre-Columbian population. However, these presumptions of extinction are being challenged by Taíno descendants and revivalist communities in Borikén (Puerto Rico), as they reclaim ancestral practices and knowledge to honor a centuries-long history of resilience. A genetic study by the U.S. National Science Foundation reveals that approximately 60 percent of Boricuas have Taíno ancestry. Guariche (women) play a significant role in fostering identity recognition, language and culture preservation, and accurate historical representation.
DAN AGOSTINI
www.dnagostini.com | @dn_agostini
Cristina travels from São Paulo, Brazil, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for a legal abortion procedure, with support from the Vivas Project.
For The Washington Post.
DARA PETROVA
www.darapetrova.com | @darina__petrova
My grandparents’ house in Bessarabia, Odesa region, Ukraine, during the Russian invasion. The pictures are from the project The Ballad of Coming Home, which explores the concept of nostalgia after emigration, including one’s relationship with memory and guilt about leaving one’s country—the eternal problem of parents and children.
KIM MAROON
www.kimberlymaroon.com | @kmaroonfoto
Sidecar racers battle it out through the 11 curves of the Canaan Motor Club’s track, in New Hampshire. The photograph is from my ongoing personal project about vintage motorcycle club racing in New England.
Published in American Photographic Artists, Los Angeles, “Off the Clock 2024.”
SOFIA NAVARRETE ZUR
sofiazur.com | @sofiazur
Women dance through the streets of San Agustín Etla (Oaxaca, Mexico) to the carnaval tunes of the brass band during the annual Muerteada femenil, or the all-female “dance of death.”
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