Hopeful Images From 2019
I’ve made it an annual tradition to compose an essay of uplifting images from the past year—an effort to seek out and recognize some of the abundant joy and kindness present in the world around us.
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Ng Han Guan / AP 2019 in Photos: Wrapping Up the Year
Time to take a look at some of the most memorable events and images of 2019. Events covered in this essay include protests in Hong Kong, Chile, and Iraq; a toxic sky over New Delhi; an all-female team of spacewalkers; and much more.
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Cadet Hallie H. Pound / U.S. Army via AP 2019 in Photos: A Look at the Middle Months
Time to take a look at some of the most memorable events and images of 2019. Events covered in this essay include the Pan American Games in Peru, a spelling bee with eight co-champions, the testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Capitol Hill, and much more.
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Joyce N. Boghosian / The White House 2019 in Photos: How the First Months Unfolded
Time to take a look at some of the most memorable events and images of 2019. Events covered in this essay include the abdication of Japan’s Emperor Akihito, a performance by Lil Nas X, a landing on the far side of the moon, and much more.
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Hagen Hopkins / Getty Top 25 News Photos of 2019
Powerful images from the past 12 eventful months
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NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team, AURA / STScI, and ESA 2019 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar
Every day until Wednesday, December 25, we’ll present one new image of our universe from NASA’s orbiting telescope.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: Glowing Skate Park, Maori Welcome, Fighting Cholitas
An earthquake in Albania, Krampus in Slovenia, a military dog at the White House, protests in Iraq and Chile, bubbles over Rome, a Christmas market in Germany, and much more
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© Mark Gray / The 10th EPSON International Pano Awards Winners of the 2019 Epson International Pano Awards
The tenth annual panoramic-photo competition has just come to a close, and the winning images and finalists have been announced.
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© Ben Thouard / Red Bull Illume Winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2019
Some of the winning images and finalists from the fifth edition of this action-and-adventure-sports photo competition.
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Anatolii Stepanov / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: Illuminated Boars, Lucid Dancing, Presidential Notes
Supercross in New Zealand, a wee Canucks fan in Vancouver, protests in Bolivia and Chile, a massive dam in Turkey, a cat show in Italy, a cavalry pyramid in Mexico, and much more.
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Saeed Khan / AFP / Getty Photos of Australia’s ‘Catastrophic’ Bushfires
Images of the devastating bushfires in southeastern Australia over the past few weeks, and of those coping with the disaster
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Marcelo Hernandez / Getty The Lasers of Discontent
Images from unrest in Chile, Hong Kong, and Iraq over the past few months, where demonstrators are using laser pointers as tools of defiance.
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Ng Han Guan / AP Riot Police Lay Siege to Hong Kong University Occupied by Protesters
Some of the most violent clashes so far of the five-month-old pro-democracy protest movement in Hong Kong took place this past weekend, as riot police stormed the campus of a university where protesters had barricaded themselves.
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