Emilio Morenatti, the Associated Press’s chief photographer for Spain and Portugal, has spent the past year documenting important news stories across Europe. Morenatti, who is based in Barcelona, covered drought conditions in Spain, made several trips to Ukraine before and during the Russian invasion, documented the aftermath of wildfires in Catalonia, photographed mourners paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, and much more. Below, in roughly chronological order, is a look at some of the stories brought to us through Morenatti’s lens in 2022.
2022 Seen Through the Lens of Emilio Morenatti
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Stanislav, 40, says goodbye to his son David, 2, and his wife Anna, 35, on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station, Ukraine, on March 3. 2022. Stanislav is staying to fight the Russian invasion while his family is leaving the country to seek refuge in a neighboring country. #
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A man photographs the old village of Aceredo, submerged three decades ago when a hydropower dam flooded the valley and recently emerged because of drought conditions at the Lindoso reservoir, in northwestern Spain, on February 12, 2022. #
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Ukrainian army soldiers pose for a photo as they gather to celebrate a Day of Unity in Odesa, Ukraine, on February 16, 2022, as Western officials warned that a Russian invasion could begin any day. #
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Ukrainian soldiers take positions outside a military facility as two cars burn in a street in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 26, 2022. Russian troops stormed toward Ukraine's capital, and street fighting broke out as city officials urged residents to take shelter. #
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A crane lifts a casket as volunteers remove the soil from a mass grave during an exhumation of four civilians killed in Mykulychi, Ukraine, on April 17, 2022. All four bodies in the village grave were people who were killed on the same street on the same day. Their temporary caskets were together in a grave. Two weeks after the soldiers disappeared, volunteers dug them up one by one to be taken to a morgue for investigation. #
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Emergency crews work in an area following an explosion in Kyiv on April 28, 2022. Russia struck the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv shortly after a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelensky and UN Secretary-General António Guterres. #
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A woman cries during the funerals of Melnyk Andriy, Shufryn Andriy, and Ankratov Oleksandra, three Ukrainian military servicemen who were killed in the east of the country, in Lviv, Ukraine, on May 14, 2022. #
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Nastia Kuzik, 21, reacts to pain while undergoing a rehabilitation session at a public hospital in Kyiv, on May 4, 2022. On the morning of March 17, she went to her brother's house in Chernihiv, then on her way back was caught in a bombing. She lost her right leg below the knee and seriously injured her left leg. She was later transported to Germany for further treatment. #
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Yana Stepanenko, 11, is carried by a doctor at a public hospital in Lviv, on May 13, 2022. Yana and her mother Natasha were injured on April 8, during shelling at the train station of the eastern city of Kramatorsk where they traveled with Yana's twin brother, Yarik, from their village near the front line. They were planning to catch an evacuation train heading west and, they hoped, to safety. #
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A view of a scorched forest after after a wildfire near the town of El Pont de Vilomara, Spain, on July 19, 2022. Authorities in Catalonia deployed dozens of firefighting planes and helicopters to try to contain the spreading fire that ravaged several homes and burned nearly 4,000 acres. #
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Sofia Klyshnia, age 12, stands in the rubble of her former classroom, in the same position where her desk sat before the Mykhailo-Kotsyubynske's lyceum was bombed by Russian forces on March 4, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on August 30, 2022. "I'm scared to stand in the destroyed part of the class I once studied in," Klyshnia said. #
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Sunflowers grow amid the rubble of a house after it was bombed by Russians in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on August 29, 2022. On May 3, witnesses heard a plane approaching and dropping bombs that destroyed a large number of houses, including this one belonging to a man named Vladimir, killing five of his relatives who were sleeping at the time. #
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Funeral workers carry a coffin with an unidentified civilian who died in the territory of the Bucha community during the Russian occupation period in February-March 2022, during a funeral in Bucha, Ukraine, on September 2, 2022. #
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In London, England, a child touches flowers left for Queen Elizabeth II at the Green Park memorial, near Buckingham Palace, on September 10, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. #
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People stand in line near Tower Bridge to pay their respects to late Queen Elizabeth II during the Lying-in-State at Westminster Hall in London, on September 16, 2022. #
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Catherine, age 70, looks out a window while holding a candle for light inside her house during a power outage in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, on October 20, 2022. Air strikes cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, part of what the country's president called an expanding Russian campaign to drive the nation into the cold and dark and make peace talks impossible. #
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At a bar in Barcelona, Spain, Argentina fans celebrate after Angel Di Maria scored during the World Cup final soccer match between Argentina and France in Qatar, on December 18, 2022. #
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