We see what they have lost because of Vladimir Putin’s aggression against their country - but also what they refuse to lose. A photo by Laetitia Vancon delights us with the sight of elegantly dressed teenagers dancing on a street in Odesa. Dumb bombs and artillery blow up buildings for the sole purpose of scaring people.Īnd yet moments of optimism and joy do arrive. Finbarr O’Reilly’s image of an explosion on Kyiv’s skyline, as Russia retaliated against Ukrainian advances with missile attacks on civilian targets, shows the war as raw and low-tech, because it is. Hers was one of the last such procedures legal under Ohio’s changing law.īut 2022 undoubtedly belongs to the war in Ukraine, a conflict now settling into a worryingly predictable rhythm. It was taken by Sarahbeth Maney, who is also a young woman of color.Ī gorgeous and powerful black-and-white photo of a pregnant woman in Ohio who had made the difficult decision to have a reduction - the termination of one severely unhealthy fetus to save the life of its healthy sibling - spoke to the anguish. Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, a moment caught in a magical photograph of Leila Jackson gazing at her mother in loving admiration. There was also change on the social and political fronts. The notebook belonged to one of those children - Uziyah Garcia, a 10-year-old. Sometimes, the most powerful image is of an object that reveals that pain and tragedy, like Tamir Kalifa’s photograph of a bullet-riddled notebook retrieved from a classroom in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were killed.
Looking at these images from 2022, it’s impossible not to see fragments of a different kind of war, one being waged here in the United States, with mass shootings taking lives seemingly every week. Even big battles and major advances proved indecisive, with both sides digging in for an extended conflict. In the village of Demydiv, someone carrying a bag waded alone down a street that had become a river, flooded by Ukrainians themselves to thwart the Russian advance.īy April, it had become a war of attrition. A Ukrainian soldier, on leave from the front, lightly held his girlfriend as he placed a soft kiss on her forehead. They began seeking something different.Īs the war ground on, they captured a new mood in facial expressions: resignation, but also resilience. Lynsey, Tyler Hicks and David Guttenfelder, fellow veterans of conflict coverage, told us that the destruction of an artillery war produces too many similar scenes. Capitol and, in 2022, a war with frightening echoes of the 20th century’s devastating world wars.Īlthough the war in Ukraine wasn’t this year’s only story, it was the most dominant - photographers for The Times filed some 16,000 images, often in circumstances that endangered their lives.Īfter the shock of the invasion, the photos began to change. Recently, every year seems like a history-making year: a pandemic that killed millions an insurrection at the U.S.
The first photo we published of a dead Russian soldier in Kharkiv, a day after the conflict began, shows the corpse covered by a fresh dusting of snow.Įvery year, starting in early fall, photo editors at The New York Times begin sifting through the year’s work in an effort to pick out the most startling, most moving, most memorable pictures. Refugees shoved their way onto a train headed west, pushing past a woman who shut her eyes and screamed.Ī woman and her two children lay dead on a roadside, felled by a blast that narrowly missed our photographer, Lynsey Addario. War had reached a major European capital, Kyiv, and its immediate outskirts. The images from the earliest moments of the Ukraine conflict revealed sheer terror and disbelief.
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