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Years come and go, sometimes before we even realize that time has passed. Events blur and run together. This news is overwhelming, and even those who watch it closely may feel a sense of constant dizziness. Such is 21st century life on a connected and disorganized planet.
But people – people stand out, no matter where they are. And moments around the planet in time, the snap of a digital camera’s shutter has the power to freeze the world – to Gaza To ukraineFrom Philippines to Haiti, I to the white house California And lots of points in between.
A crew of Associated Press photographers documented it in 2025: The frenetic and the quiet, the bloody and the contemplative, and even a healthy dose of joy, wonder and discovery to help us see that our violent and sometimes incomprehensible world is also full of good things.
From more than 200 locations globally, AP photojournalists are trusted eyewitnesses to the news and have won 36 AP Pulitzer Prizes since the award was established in 1917.
However, they are more than eyewitnesses. He is a journalist, an explorer, an artist, a wise man. They are experts in vantage point and lighting, people skills and storytelling.
Sometimes it’s color: saturated, angry oranges in Etienne Laurent’s striking image of firefighters in California battling a blaze that has engulfed a beachside property in Malibu, California.
Sometimes it’s action and motion: Robert F. Photograph of the back half of a Bukatti sturgeon, moving rapidly in the waters of the Main and leaving bubbles behind. Or the kinetic energy that bursts from Aaron Favila’s frames of people gathering to save power lines after a fire in a poor Philippine community.
Photographers sometimes call this “negative space”: Petros Giannakouris’s image of the Parthenon and the moon at night, their grandeur dramatically enhanced by the midnight blue sky that fills most of the frame.
Sometimes it juxtaposes images and continents: Niranjan Shrestha’s photograph of a protester in Nepal, her hair tossed behind her and her arms outstretched after snatching a flak jacket and shield from a policeman during the chaos of a protest – and it is the mirror image of happiness, Andy Wong’s image of a woman with her arms in the air jumping into a pool made of ice in frozen northeastern China.
Sometimes it’s pure sadness and heartbreak, as in Julia Demery Nickinson’s close-up of Erica Kirk, wiping a tear from her reddened right eye before speaking at the memorial for her deceased conservative activist husband. charlie kirkOr even double the heartbreak: A critically injured Palestinian woman holding the body of her newborn daughter in the Gaza Strip’s Nasser Hospital after an Israeli airstrike — and realizing that just weeks later, photographer Maryam Dagga would die in another airstrike while covering the same hospital,
Finally, sometimes it’s just quiet contemplation – a rare moment in these chaotic days – as seen through the lens of Jenny Kane, who captured the shadow of a lone man walking on the beach near a rock jutting out from the shore in Oregon.
Whatever the subject, whatever the memorable feature, one thing is constant. In every single image, AP photographers carefully calibrate their equipment — both creative and mechanical — to give the world a glimpse of itself that resists forgetting.
And after a confusing year full of history and heartbreak, when for most of us all that remains are images, that photographic work – carving the grooves of collective memory with color and light and enthusiasm and creativity – may be one of the most important contributions of all.
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Photo editing by Benjamin Snyder, Enrique Martí and Jacqueline Lerma.