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The Year In Pictures 2022<\/em>, The New York Times<\/p>\n

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Once again, as we have so often done, we end the year with The Year In Pictures from The New York Times. \u00a0We 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

At the end of the current 2022 Pictures are links to every Year in Pictures for 12 years since 2010.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Here is 2022 in pictures, and links to the years in pictures back to 2010:<\/p>\n

THE YEAR IN PICTURES<\/a><\/p>\n

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BY JOSEPH KAHN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Every year, starting in early fall, photo editors at The New York Times begin sifting through the year\u2019s 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\u2019s devastating world wars.<\/p>\n

Although the war in Ukraine wasn\u2019t this year\u2019s only story, it was the most dominant \u2014 photographers for The Times filed some 16,000 images, often in circumstances that endangered their lives.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Looking at these images from 2022, it\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 \u2014 Uziyah Garcia, a 10-year-old.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

A gorgeous and powerful black-and-white photo of a pregnant woman in Ohio who had made the difficult decision to have a reduction \u2014 the termination of one severely unhealthy fetus to save the life of its healthy sibling \u2014 spoke to the anguish.<\/p>\n

Hers was one of the last such procedures legal under Ohio\u2019s changing law.<\/p>\n

But 2022 undoubtedly belongs to the war in Ukraine, a conflict now settling into a worryingly predictable rhythm. Finbarr O\u2019Reilly\u2019s image of an explosion on Kyiv\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s aggression against their country \u2014 but also what they refuse to lose.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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