“There were people living amongst the ruins. “At night it was particularly poignant, because there was no electricity and would just be lit by lights of cars,” he said. He found a way to sneak in with the help of friends, and eventually persuaded officials to let him work there. Prickett away from the old, colonial part of the city. It did come back to me, but it was one of the most heavily destroyed scenes I’ve seen in years, and that’s saying a lot because I’ve been in Mosul and Raqqa.” “I couldn’t really figure out what was where. Prickett said after his chance to get a look at a part of the nation that had been largely cut off to foreigners for years. And they gave us unforgettable images from a historic year in our lives. No one could escape the virus and vitalness of 2020. Henson Scales as the most diverse group in his more than a decade curating this annual compilation - was how much they too lived what they witnessed.
Journalists are observers, not participants, but the most striking sense to emerge from interviews with the photographers who took these pictures - described by Mr. In 2020, a year when all aspects of life seemed transformed, so was the process of making these photographs. In May, a lone demonstrator carries an upside-down American flag past a burning liquor store in Minneapolis, in protest of the killing of George Floyd. As the year progresses, fueled by police shootings of young Black men, powerfully symbolic pictures of protests begin appearing. Punctuating these scenes are photographs of a tumultuous American election that even without the ravages of the virus would end up looming large in history books.
Among the most disturbing is a photo of a refrigerated trailer set up as a makeshift morgue in Greenwich Village. Vacant streets of London and the Place de la Concorde. Some of the most haunting images are of emptiness. The scenes of people comforting beloved family members through glass and cellphones are heartbreaking. Then the virus swept the world, recorded in indelible images. The other looks like a still from a sci-fi film: A man dressed in black, wearing a white mask, lies dead on a city street two emergency workers have stepped away from him and gaze at the viewer - all but their eyes hidden by face coverings and ghostly white protective suits. In one aerial shot, construction workers are building a giant hospital virtually overnight to handle hundreds of patients stricken with the coronavirus. But two pictures taken in late January in Wuhan, China, are hints of a larger cataclysm to come.
The impeachment of an American president culminated in early 2020. Jeffrey Henson Scales, who edited The Year in Pictures with David Furst, said he had never felt such sweep and emotion from a single year’s images - from the “joy and optimism” of a New Year’s Eve kiss in Times Square, to angry crowds on the streets of Hong Kong and in American cities, to scenes of painful debates over race and policing, to the “seemingly countless graves and coffins across the globe.” The photographs in this collection capture those historic 12 months. It will long be remembered and studied as a time when more than 1.5 million people globally died during a pandemic, racial unrest gripped the world, and democracy itself faced extraordinary tests. The year 2020 will certainly join this list. Certain years are so eventful they are regarded as pivotal in history, years when wars and slavery ended and deep generational fissures burst into the open - 1865, 19 among them.
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