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Published December 30, 2022

The Year In Pictures 2022, The New York Times

Once again, as we have so often done, we end the year with The Year In Pictures from The New York Times. We let the introduction, descriptions and reports from photo journalists speak for themselves. And the pictures, each one as the saying goes, speak a thousand words.

It seems every year we could say this, but there has never been a year more than 2022 in which issues of greater importance and impact have occurred.

We sincerely hope that the pictures and brief comments motivate you to look further into these stories and learn as much as possible about them. Our world and the future depend on it.

At the end of the current 2022 Pictures are links to every Year in Pictures for 12 years since 2010.

We cannot think of any way that could match just looking at the pictures through these years in the last two days of 2022, and the beginning days of 2023, in depth of experience for the heart, mind and spirit.

Here is 2022 in pictures, and links to the years in pictures back to 2010:

THE YEAR IN PICTURES

BY JOSEPH KAHN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR

The images from the earliest moments of the Ukraine conflict revealed sheer terror and disbelief. War had reached a major European capital, Kyiv, and its immediate outskirts. Refugees shoved their way onto a train headed west, pushing past a woman who shut her eyes and screamed.

A woman and her two children lay dead on a roadside, felled by a blast that narrowly missed our photographer, Lynsey Addario. 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.

Every 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. Recently, every year seems like a history-making year: a pandemic that killed millions; an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol; and, in 2022, a war with frightening echoes of the 20th century’s devastating world wars.

Although 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.

After the shock of the invasion, the photos began to change. 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. They began seeking something different.

As the war ground on, they captured a new mood in facial expressions: resignation, but also resilience. A Ukrainian soldier, on leave from the front, lightly held his girlfriend as he placed a soft kiss on her forehead. 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.

By April, it had become a war of attrition. Even big battles and major advances proved indecisive, with both sides digging in for an extended conflict.

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. 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. The notebook belonged to one of those children — Uziyah Garcia, a 10-year-old.

There was also change on the social and political fronts. 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. It was taken by Sarahbeth Maney, who is also a young woman of color.

A 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.

Hers was one of the last such procedures legal under Ohio’s changing law.

But 2022 undoubtedly belongs to the war in Ukraine, a conflict now settling into a worryingly predictable rhythm. 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. Dumb bombs and artillery blow up buildings for the sole purpose of scaring people.

And yet moments of optimism and joy do arrive. A photo by Laetitia Vancon delights us with the sight of elegantly dressed teenagers dancing on a street in Odesa. We see what they have lost because of Vladimir Putin’s aggression against their country — but also what they refuse to lose.

With this collection, we recognize our photographers for their outstanding work around the world, and hope you will understand more about their thinking and their day-to-day processes as they explain, in their own words, how they got the story.

JANUARY

A Ukrainian soldier standing on a wooden boardwalk that is covered in snow. The soldier is wearing a white military uniform and holding a gun.

Crowds gathering outside under a blue sky. Some people are lifting their hands and cellphones. A couple of them are holding up Burkina Faso flags, which have a gold star between red and green bands.

A woman stoops down to pet a black dog as bags of groceries wait on the street. The woman is wearing a white hat, glasses, a floral-patterned mask and a black poncho.

Elliot Ross joined Wendy Marcum as she did her grocery shopping for the coming weeks.

“As we were walking the final blocks to her temporary home, this sodden, shivering pregnant dog appeared and went up to Wendy under the glow of a streetlight. Instinctively, she dropped the groceries to the pavement and took this sad, smelly creature into her arms and into the house. I was struck by the parallels between Wendy and the dog — two creatures in need of home and heart.”

An aerial view of charred homes and bare trees amid fallen snow.

“When you’re standing on the ground, you can’t visualize the scope of the destruction. So pulling back a little and being able to see the scale of it and seeing the whole neighborhood with the curves of the streets, you can see how the whole neighborhood had been laid out.”

— ERIN SCHAFF

A farmer trimming trees in his dragon fruit orchard. The trees are adorned with LED lights.

The mayor’s office stands damaged by fire. A chair is in the middle of the room amid stacks of dirty boxes, and the walls are charred.

People placing their hands on a coffin with a black cover.

A woman and a child standing in an intricate doorway as a line of special forces point guns at them. The special forces are wearing helmets, jackets and blue camouflage pants.

A woman wearing a black face mask holds a lit candle. Police officers outside the frame are wrapping their arms around each of her shoulders.

Pink and white flowers behind a fogged-up window.

FEBRUARY

A skeleton athlete taking a winding curve at a track during sundown. Various slopes are in the background.

A close-up of a figure skater spinning on the ice. She is wearing a sparkly red uniform.

Shaun White crying and holding his snowboard close to him on a slope. He is wearing Olympic snowboarding gear.

A colony of penguins on a rocky headland. Hunks of ice float in the ocean in the background. A bird flies overhead.

A girl with her face turned aside and her hands on her lap is sitting in a tree swing. A wicker chair, a ball and other items are near the tree.

A child covered in dust working in a coal mine. A headlamp is strapped to his head.

A woman wearing a white coat and blue pants stands in an upper level of a destroyed building. She looks down at the debris.

Lynsey Addario arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 14, shortly before the invasion began.

“We went to the site where the building had been attacked that morning. There was a woman who basically just kind of came out to start surveying her house. You need some human interaction when you make these photographs. You have to show the scale, the effect and what’s left behind in people’s lives. That’s the challenge with covering war. This war is an artillery war. We see the same images over and over, and it’s really hard to make anything different.”

A group of women sitting in what appears to be the back of a vehicle with red and black cloth tacked onto its walls and roof. One woman is weeping. They are all holding guns and wearing outer gear.

The corpse of a Russian soldier lying next to an armored vehicle in the snow.

Tyler Hicks arrived in Kharkiv, Ukraine, as Russian forces were mounting assaults on the city.

“There was no way to know if you would run into Russian soldiers. I decided to get out of the car and walk to make sure we weren’t going to drive up to any surprises. There was snow on the ground and I wasn’t sure what I was going to find, but I eventually came upon several Russian soldiers who had been killed. I took the photos as quickly as I could because the area where I was working was exposed, and then I got back to cover.”

MARCH

Fighters wearing military gear and holding guns are crouched beside some trees. Many of them are wearing blue bands around their arms and helmets.

A woman at the doorway of a packed train cries out in distress as more people clamber onboard. The people are wearing coats, hats and other outerwear.

A woman and her two children are lying dead on the ground. Two Ukrainian soldiers are hunched over, trying to save a family friend. There is blood on the friend’s face and hand. A man is standing over the bodies and watching, while another person is walking past in the background.

“I was photographing along a civilian evacuation route and was in the actual attack. The shell landed between us. The woman and her two children and the church volunteer were killed. I was just lucky the blast went the other direction and not toward me.”

— LYNSEY ADDARIO

A woman looking out of her tent in a hall underground at a subway station. Shoes are lined up outside the tent. Down the hall, many people have set up blankets and taken refuge.

A crew carrying an injured pregnant woman on a stretcher outside a damaged yellow building. The woman is lying on a watermelon-patterned blanket. Smoke is coming out of the building, and twigs and broken trees surround the area.

A photo grid of four portraits. At top left, a woman wearing a black parka and a yellow hoodie squats down with the flames of open-air stoves in the background. At top right, a woman wearing a Kovanen scarf and a black coat is leaning on two pieces of luggage in an underground hallway. At bottom right, a woman stands next to her father, who is seated. The woman’s hands are on her father’s shoulders, and he is holding one of her hands. At bottom left, a bearded man is wearing a black zip-up jacket.

Alexander Chekmenev went to Kyiv, Ukraine, a week after the invasion to take portraits of residents who remained.

“To me, everyone who stayed and was ready to meet the invaders was a hero. They were actors, doctors, pensioners and students, and practically all became volunteers. It was important to show the war through a particular person, so that each of us could look into their eyes and see ourselves in the mirror and ask ourselves whether we would have been able to act as they did.”

A woman crying and holding a young girl in a car. Another girl is sitting next to them, wearing a purple zip-up jacket and a seatbelt across her chest.

PALANCA, MOLDOVA, MARCH 1. Ilona Koval, the choreographer for the Ukrainian figure skating team, fleeing the war with her daughter, left, and a family friend. Many Ukrainians headed west to the safer regions of the country, or onward into Europe.

LAETITIA VANCON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A man swimming inside his submerged cafe. Right above him are fans hanging from the ceiling.

LOWER PORTLAND, AUSTRALIA, MARCH 9.Darren Osmotherly tried to secure furniture that was floating inside his submerged cafe, after record rainfall along the eastern coast caused some of the worst flooding in Australia’s history.

MATTHEW ABBOTT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

An older woman reaching for the light switch in a dimly lit tavern. She is wearing glasses and has short white hair. A candy dispenser and a napkin holder are on the counter next to her.

Will Smith slapping Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars ceremony. Mr. Rock is wearing a blue velvet jacket and Mr. Smith is wearing a dark green suit.

“I was focusing pretty tightly on Chris Rock and all of the sudden I see the back of somebody come into my frame, and I think instinct just kicked in. I knew I had the picture, but I didn’t know what had happened. Later, someone asked, ‘How did you feel taking the picture that went viral around the world?’ And my response was: ‘I was so relieved I didn’t have to do the walk of shame the next day.’ Can you imagine if I’d missed it?”

— RUTH FREMSON

A man sitting on his bed and facing the window in his bedroom with the lights off.

“Mr. Gao lost his wife when she was assaulted with a rock as she was sweeping a sidewalk in Elmhurst. I slept at his place and went with him to work the next day. He boiled a pot of dumplings for me and poured me coffee in the morning. It really felt like he was just moving on autopilot and trying to put one foot in front of the other. It was overwhelming.”

— JUSTIN J WEE

Denise Lanzisera stands behind her granddaughter, Anita Lanza, and adjusts the girl’s hair. Anita kneels on a chair while playing with Lego bricks on a table.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, wearing a blue suit and smiling during her confirmation hearing, is in the foreground but out of focus. Seated behind her is her husband, Patrick Jackson, and her teenage daughter, Leila Jackson. Leila is looking at her mother with an admiring smile.

Sarahbeth Maney said it was an honor, as a biracial woman, to be present at the hearings.

“I looked up and noticed Leila looking toward her mom. I thought what it must have felt like to have her mother be in that position right then. The pride and admiration for her mother, but it also showed her knowing the challenges her mother had to persevere through to create that seat for herself.”

APRIL

A man running his hand through his hair in front of an apartment building that is on fire. The sky is filled with smoke, and two other people are in the background facing the building.

“As a photographer, when you go day after day after day to these scenes, you just see over and over how people are having to cope with such tremendous loss. When I’m there in that moment, I’m seeing them in that very low point in their lives. And the next day it repeats again. And again.”

— TYLER HICKS

Workers wearing white suits carrying a body out of a mass grave. The police and onlookers watch nearby. A large white building with three gold domes is in the background.

Daniel Berehulak arrived in Bucha, Ukraine, after the end of a 30-day Russian occupation.

“It was kind of apocalyptic. The residents hadn’t had any kind of significant food drops in 30 days. There was a mass grave near this church in the center of Bucha where the Russians had been burying a mix of civilians and some soldiers. They found more than 100 bodies buried there. We heard terrible stories of rape and torture and the killings of civilians.”

A woman covering her mouth as she looks at three dead bodies on the ground. She is wearing a blue hat and coat. The ground is strewn with sticks and twigs.

A soldier in uniform placing his hand on the head of his dead twin brother, who is in an open coffin. Friends, family and others in uniform are standing behind him a distance away. Some are holding flower bouquets.

A monument of a uniformed man holding a helmet and looking down. Shrapnel blasts have damaged the man’s chest and both sleeves.

Three people wearing face masks and dark clothing are crying with their hands covering their faces. Two of them are sitting on a bench next to shrubbery, and the third is kneeling next to them.

A soldier in uniform kissing the forehead of his girlfriend, who is looking down at his chest. They are on a sidewalk next to a waist-high wall of white sandbags. In the background are buildings and a white column topped by a blue globe decorated with circling birds.

A wide shot of a person walking through flooded streets amid houses and bare trees.

A black and white shot taken inside a building, where rows of empty chairs are facing large glass windows looking out onto the street. A cat is on the sidewalk.

A woman covering her face with her hand at a table in a dimly lit room. Three flower centerpieces are arranged on the table.

A man throwing a single white flower into his son’s open grave. People wearing black are crowded around the grave, some taking pictures. A few white flower bouquets have been tossed onto the coffin.

A man wearing a black mask and sunglasses stands with his fist in the air on a raised platform outside. People around him are clapping, cheering and raising their fists. A microphone and sound system are placed near the platform.

Two men embracing on a balcony. Several benches and side tables are nearby. Trees and buildings are in the background.

MAY

A stormy Atlantic Ocean sweeping away two of the houses that line the shore. Debris is scattered along the beach.

A wide shot of police officers rushing at a group of people bearing a coffin through a crowd. A few of the mourners are waving the flag of Palestine, which features a red triangle and three stripes of black, white and green.

“The crowd that had arrived to see her off was much larger than expected. People who came really wanted to honor her and march her through the streets, which is something that happens a lot for martyrs. I was up in a window of the hospital standing with a bunch of nurses and they were crying — people were shocked. She was really a beloved figure.”

— MAYA LEVIN

A wide shot of several houses and some high-rises that have been destroyed. Many are missing their roofs. Others look charred.

IRPIN, UKRAINE, MAY 2. Homes in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, were reduced to rubble after weeks of fierce fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces.

DAVID GUTTENFELDER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A soldier in combat uniform leaning against a trench wall as he smokes. His face is obscured by shadows and a fog of exhaled smoke.

A wide shot of a line of migrants crossing the Rio Grande under a blue sky. Trees line both sides of the river, and one side has buildings in the distance.

A young boy sitting on a tiled floor and playing with toy figures near an open door. He is wearing a blue T-shirt and blue pants.

A young woman in a flowing, black and tan head scarf holding her baby, who is leaning against her chest.

“The worst thing for a parent is not being able to feed your child, and what is interesting about malnourishment is it’s not necessarily hunger that kills the children — it’s that their bodies are so weak they can’t fight disease anymore. They’ll get some kind of infection their body can’t fight and they’ll pass away.”

— MALIN FEZEHAI

A back view of five teenage boys in swimsuits splashing as they enter the water. They are standing in a line with their arms linked.

GARDEN VALLEY, NEV., MAY 1. The artist Michael Heizer at “City,” his vast land art sculpture. The $40 million project, set in a remote stretch of the high Nevada desert, took 50 years to complete.

TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

A visitor kneeling on the sidewalk to take a photo of the candles, flower bouquets and signs honoring those killed. The Tops store is in the background.

BUFFALO, MAY 24.Charon Reed cradled her son, Koda Anderson, at the funeral for her grandmother, Celestine Chaney, one of the 10 victims of the shooting at Tops.

GABRIELA BHASKAR/THE NEW YORK TIMES

“There’s a kind of intergenerational trauma when violence happens. I really felt the deep amount of grief that was going to linger in this family in the way the Mom was crying and in the way she was holding on to the child. The kind of grief they were experiencing comes in waves and can be very quiet.”

— GABRIELA BHASKAR

Young students running out of their school across the pavement and grass. Law enforcement officers are gathered around an open window and stand in various spots on the campus.

Pete Luna was on his lunch break when a friend who follows a police scanner texted and said, ‘Are you listening?’

“I saw a little girl running out of the school directly toward me and she’s bleeding profusely from her face. I thought she had broken her nose in a stampede getting out of there. I guess she had suffered a shrapnel injury. I never heard gunshots. But later on I saw two more children running out, and they had gunshot wounds and they were bleeding from the legs and arms. I saw others being evacuated in stretchers, and it became apparent — this is actually a shooting. I only knew what was happening after the fact.”

A person wearing a white protective suit and a face mask locks a solid green barrier on a city street. The gate blocks the entrance to a group of tall buildings.

A group of demonstrators rallying outside the Supreme Court. Two of them are speaking into megaphones. Some are holding signs that read "Bans off my body."

JUNE

Celebrating women raise their hands in the air. Some are carrying megaphones and placards, with one reading "I am the post-Roe generation."

Three women wearing face masks in a health clinic office. One is seated with her elbows on a desk and her head in her hands. Another brings her hands to her eyes.

A group of young dancing couples in the street, with a wall of sandbags in front of them. The girls are wearing flowing turquoise dresses and the boys are in black pants and white shirts.

When Laetitia Vancon arrived in Odesa, Ukraine, she went out for a quick look around and stumbled onto this scene.

“It was the end of the school year, just before students enter university, and usually they celebrate with a huge ball and have a big diploma celebration. But they couldn’t because of the war. They wanted to make this for social media to show what they had lost during the war. It looked like a movie scene. It was remarkable.”

A metallic tube juts out of a hole in the ground next to a tree. Behind is a building and a red car on a road.

A side view of a group of people standing under a blue sky with some clouds. One woman dressed in black has turned toward the camera. Her eyes are closed and she clutches her stomach with one hand and her face with the other.

Part of the Golden Gate Bridge, glinting in the sunlight, pokes out from a thick layer of fog.

A person wearing headphones sits before an entire wall of screens that display televised images from the hearings.

MANHATTAN, JUNE 26.Performing on Fifth Avenue during the Pride March. The joyous celebration was shadowed by the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling, which signaled a possible threat to other liberties, including gay rights.

DESIREE RIOS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

A woman wearing a green headscarf gazes at her child and strokes her head. They are in a wood-paneled train carriage that is opulently decorated with red curtains and ornate chairs.

An open notebook with handwritten numbers, some scribbled, some in neat rows. Both pages have a deep tear at the bottom.

Tamir Kalifa gained the trust of the family of Uziyah Garcia, who was killed in the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

“We so rarely get a glimpse into the rooms where this profound violence happens. To see an item that is so relatable with a child’s handwriting punctured by a bullet evokes emotion. It’s a symbol of a child’s life and the simple innocence of a 10-year-old just solving his math problems whose life was literally punctured by a bullet.”

Three men standing in ankle-deep water in a field hold a collapsed man by his arms. His eyes are closed. Behind are three other men wading through the water.

Three people work on a small wooden coffin on the ground. One is using a hammer. They are in front of a dilapidated shack where three children are playing.

JULY

A swirling orange-brown mass that has the appearance of a mountain range against a blue-black sky. There are stars dotted everywhere.

“This is a completely new observatory. It looks at things we’ve never seen before. We tried to predict what we’d see but we didn’t know. The observatory can look at objects that address all the themes — the birth and death of stars, evolution of galaxies and planets and more. The images had a tremendous impact.”

— DR. KLAUS PONTOPPIDAN

“Some photographers treat people in powwows like zoo animals. I wanted to have meaning behind the photos. This was the first powwow after the pandemic, so it was really special. The kids had on new outfits because they’d grown out of their old ones. I wanted to show why their outfits meant something to them.”

— TAILYR IRVINE

The pope wearing his white clerical robe while sitting in a wheelchair between two men, who are standing. They are all facing away from the camera toward a calm lake. One man is wearing a dark clerical robe and the other is in a dark suit.

A group of men, many with their fists in the air and shouting. Several are climbing over a white building and some are holding the Sri Lankan flag, which features a yellow lion holding a sword against a red and yellow background.

A security officer is on the ground, grabbing Tetsuya Yamagami

A group of women outside a building. Many are crying and two are hugging.

A large house with a purple roof is surrounded by muddy floodwaters. In the background are green trees with their trunks partly submerged.

A row of children asleep on mattresses on the floor in a room with light coming in from the windows. Next to them are shelves of toys.

A girl in a yellow T-shirt plays in a swing on the lawn of a house, her hair flying behind her. Her mother stands watching nearby.

An older couple dancing at the end of a long hallway in a home. Their hands are clasped and their heads are close.

AUGUST

A heavy artillery weapon camouflaged by foliage emits a ball of fire as a soldier stands next to it. Nearby are two soldiers covering their ears with their hands.

An icon hanging on a wall is surrounded by splintered wood and other debris.

A man wearing a white tank top and blue shorts does a pushup on parallel bars. He is missing both legs and there is a wheelchair underneath him. Another man with a prosthetic leg is watching him.

David Guttenfelder went to a hospital in Ukraine and heard the harrowing stories of war.

“The most moving thing to me was this moment when another one of the wounded received a prosthetic leg. The nurse shouted to me, ‘David, David, come quick!’ All of the other patients had come on their crutches and wheelchairs, all peering inside the room as he was being fitted and all passing the leg around and making jokes. It really felt like a family united in this shared struggle.”

Brittney Griner, wearing a gray T-shirt and holding a drink bottle, sits in a small cell. A hand reaching through the bars touches her wrist.

A man in a high-visibility green top stands in front of dozens of large logs piled high.

“What I like the most about the image is that it shows how the connection between human beings and nature is everywhere. The photo shows how big nature is compared with human beings. It’s a reminder to keep that connection and keep in mind that we need to protect the biodiversity.”

— ARLETTE BASHIZI

A woman in a headscarf crouches on the floor of a house as she caresses her child

A woman in a pink shawl standing on top of a car with her arms held aloft. In front of her is a long stream of cars and people. In the background are mountains.

Rishi Sunak surrounded by people, most of whom are smiling and applauding.

President Hu Jintao being held by his arm by a man in a surgical mask. He is leaning toward a sitting President Xi Jinping as if to speak to him.

A girl holding up an unrolled Torah. Behind her are two more rows of people holding unrolled Torahs.

Two people wearing scary clown-like masks and red shirts while sitting in a car.

NOVEMBER

A woman stares up at a bus that has a huge picture of Donald Trump emblazoned on the side.

Ron DeSantis, dressed in a blue suit with a red tie, waves with one hand while holding his daughter in his other arm. His wife, in a gold gown, is behind him, holding hands with their other daughter and their son. They are standing in front of a large American flag.

John Fetterman stands on a stage, gesturing to members of the crowd, who are waving signs that read "Union workers for Fetterman."

Nancy Pelosi, wearing a white blazer, walks along a corridor lined with people who are applauding and shaking her hand.

“I’ve documented Ms. Pelosi behind the scenes for over four years, which helped me gain access to this private moment when she returned to her office to receive an emotional ovation from her staff. Several of those staff members had sheltered in that office from rioters searching for Ms. Pelosi as they stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.”

— ERIN SCHAFF

A man and two young boys walk across a street with trees and houses in the background. All three are wearing black winter hats and winter coats. The man holds a gallon of milk in his hand.

Kenny Holston was on a stakeout waiting for the billionaire Elon Musk when he saw a family shopping for groceries.

“I saw a dad with two little kids going into a convenience store. When they came out they had only this singular gallon of milk. I looked up how much it would have cost them a year ago. The percentage increase was wild. It was nearly 35 percent more expensive than last year, on top of a 10 percent convenience store markup. The juxtaposition of waiting for a billionaire and seeing them was fascinating.”

Wearing a hard hat, Eleonora Pucci stands on a scaffold tower as she reaches down to brush dust from the thigh of the marble statue of David.

Two Orthodox Jewish men in traditional clothing wait in a corridor outside a room, as another casts a ballot in a blue box inside the room.

A person waves a rainbow flag by a stained glass window. Nearby are several people standing or sitting in pews.

A weeping woman wearing a headscarf reaches out to touch a soldier.

A large crowd of people bunched tightly together. One man in a uniform is standing above the crowd.

The silhouettes of soldiers bathed in red light by a river, against a backdrop of trees and a twilit sky.

“There was zero light apart from these red headlamps that they used to remain as invisible as possible so they’re not picked up by Russian drones. The sun was just starting to come up. They were just coming in and unloading from the boat onto the dock. The only way I could make this work was to wait for people not to be moving too much.”

— IVOR PRICKETT