As part of our Year in Review, we take a look at how photographers captured some of the key moments of 2022…
Photographers around the world captured key moments in 2022. Here are 12 images of events that marked the year…
Screenshot of the plume from a powerful undersea eruption which obliterated the uninhabited Tongan island known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai on 15th January. PICTURE: NASA Earth Observatory.
People search debris on the beach, in the aftermath of Cyclone Batsirai, in the town of Mananjary, Madagascar, on 8th February; the cyclone hit just weeks after more than 100 people died in Tropical Storm Ana. PICTURE: Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis
Yana Bachek is consoled by her partner Yevgeniy Vlasenko and her mother Lyubov Gubareva, as she mourns over the body of her father Victor Gubarev, 79, killed by shelling during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on 18th April. PICTURE: Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis.
Internally displaced Somali woman Habiba Bile stands near the carcass of her dead livestock following severe droughts near Dollow, Gedo Region, Somalia, on 26th May. PICTURE: Reuters/Feisal Omar.
Bystanders look on after former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot during an election campaign in Nara, western Japan, on 8th July. PICTURE: Tokumeigakarinoaoshima (licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0)
Demonstrators protest inside the President’s House, after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled, amid the country’s economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 9th July. PICTURE: Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte
The coffin of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is carried out of Westminster Abbey after a service on the day of her state funeral and burial, in London, Britain, on 19th September. PICTURE: Reuters/Hannah McKay/Pool
A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic’s “morality police”, in Tehran, Iran on 19th September. PICTURE: WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters
British Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks to the media at the Empire State building in New York, US, on 30th September. Truss, who replaced Boris Johnson, became the shortest serving PM in UK history with just 44 days in office before she too resigned. PICTURE: Reuters/Toby Melville/Pool
Women mourn at the scene of a crowd crush that happened during Halloween festivities on 31st October, in Seoul, South Korea, on 29th November. PICTURE: Reuters/ Heo Ran/File photo.
Firefighters work at a site of a critical power infrastructure object, which was hit during Russia’s drones attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine, in this handout picture released on 19th December. PICTURE: Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via Reuters
Migrants, mostly from Venezuela, take refuge from the cold on a public transport bus during a night of low temperatures, while another migrant with his son watches them from outside, in downtown El Paso, Texas, US, on 23rd December. PICTURE: Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez.
