Thread. As the end of yet another year amidst a pandemic quickly approaches, here's my choice of some of the most great photos of 2021.
A Palestinian girl stands amid the rubble of her destroyed home on in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. © Fatima Shbair
A Palestinian girl stands amid the rubble of her destroyed home on in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. © Fatima Shbair
An injured resident of Togoga, arrives on a stretcher to the Ayder referral hospital in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on June 23, 2021, a day after a deadly airstrike on a market in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region.
© Yasuyoshi Chiba
© Yasuyoshi Chiba
An eight-year-old boy begs on the streets of Depok, Indonesia.
His skin is covered in a toxic concoction of metallic paint and cooking oil that transforms his body into a kind of burnished sculpture. #ManusiaSilver
His skin is covered in a toxic concoction of metallic paint and cooking oil that transforms his body into a kind of burnished sculpture. #ManusiaSilver
When a colossal cargo ship jammed itself sideways in Egypt's Suez Canal in spring, the world, like global shipping traffic itself, suddenly stopped in its tracks.
Photos of a diminutive digger - the Ever Given ship attempting to free the vast vehicle inspired a lot of memes.
Photos of a diminutive digger - the Ever Given ship attempting to free the vast vehicle inspired a lot of memes.
Live in garbage © M Yousuf Toushar
Moscow's hidden gem © Vitaly Golovatyuk
French firefighters protect a painting in Saint-Andre cathedral, Bordeaux, with a fireproof blanket during a drill aimed at preserving artworks.
© Philippe Lopez
© Philippe Lopez
Analog astronauts from a European and Israeli team walk in spacesuits during a training mission at the Ramon Crater in Israel's southern Negev desert. © Jack Guez
A coin-size juvenile cowfish off Indonesia’s coast. © Jennifer Hayes
Ndakasi the mountain gorilla passes away in her caregiver's arms after a prolonged illness on September 26, 2021.
Andre Bauma and others at the Senkwekwe Mountain Gorilla Center have cared for Ndakasi and other orphans for the last 14 years.
© Brent Stirton
Andre Bauma and others at the Senkwekwe Mountain Gorilla Center have cared for Ndakasi and other orphans for the last 14 years.
© Brent Stirton
Raffaello Lercari, a worker for the Cantina Cheo winery in Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy, teeters down a narrow path carrying a box of hand-harvested grapes from the winery’s ”vigneti eroici,” or heroic vineyard.
© Chiara Goia
© Chiara Goia
Two girls dressed in traditional Greek attire stand outside the church of Agios Onoufrios in Karpathos, Greece.
In Olympos, a matriarchal village in the northern part of the island, women are forging a new path for ecotourism while keeping old traditions alive.
© Ciril Jazbec
In Olympos, a matriarchal village in the northern part of the island, women are forging a new path for ecotourism while keeping old traditions alive.
© Ciril Jazbec
Alvino “El Chino” Velázquez oversees livestock, horses, and dogs as field foreman on the Bronzovich ranch in Argentine Patagonia.
© Lujan Agusti
© Lujan Agusti
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