“We were taken out to the South Lawn and it was just like a normal Marine One landing, but this one was different because he was just coming back from the hospital. Ms. Kohut and Julie Turkewitz, the Andes bureau chief for The New York Times, followed one woman in labor who was turned away from several hospitals before planting herself in front of one and refusing to leave. But picnic tables remained empty as residents stayed home in the pandemic. And they gave us unforgettable images from a historic year in our lives. The family is now crammed into a small, one-room apartment. “Her mom had come from a childhood of a lot of precarity and she was determined not to create that for her kids. With Covid, she was often one of just two pool photographers shooting events. “At the time of the photo, she had not told her children where all the food was coming from,” Ms. Kenneally said. In late March, Fabio Bucciarelli was in Bergamo, Italy, where infections were surging. An antigovernment protester clashed with officers, who dispersed crowds with water cannons that sprayed a chemical irritant. She thought it was important that people know it’s not some other folks who are suffering, it’s all of us.”. Officers were confronted by protesters after the killing of Rayshard Brooks, which left many once again incensed by the death of another Black man at the hands of the police. Migrants fled as fires tore through the Moria refugee camp, leaving 12,000 people homeless, including 4,000 children. “In a Covid ward, everyone is wearing face masks, sanitizing and taking the virus seriously. “Those were trickling down to food banks until it came to Clara’s birthday cake,” Ms. Kenneally said. People were just trying to enjoy as much of the experience as possible. The layers of shame that even when you’ve pulled yourself out you keep apologizing and laughing self-consciously about the cake. The circus had been camped out on the outskirts of Rome since March, when the coronavirus lockdown began. Almost a third of their life has been in the pandemic. close. When you’re at the front of a march you never really know how big a crowd is until you move around, and everyone had stopped, and I could see everyone down the hill and it was breathtaking.”. “We were trying to be normal, but trying to start taking some sort of precautions — but what? Supporters of Senator Elizabeth Warren at an event that was held on the same day as the Nevada caucuses, in which she finished in fourth place. Cardboard boxes made for bodies.”, "I don’t know if they ran out of boxes or what, but they had a couple chairs with just a piece of plywood across and there was a deceased person on it with just a sheet laid out over it.”. Interviews by Dionne Searcey. Demonstrators during a rally at the Lincoln Memorial, on a day when half a million people turned out to protest systemic racism in nearly 550 places across the United States. Ilvy Njiokiktjien went to the south of the Netherlands to photograph new coronavirus testing sites that opened to process tens of thousands of tests a day. A doctor comforted a Covid-19 patient in an intensive care unit. Election ballots waiting to be sent for counting. ... Saturday December 12 2020, 6.00pm, The Sunday Times. The Chinese government imposed restrictions on practically every aspect of life amid the coronavirus crisis. “He told me he thought he was going to die, and when he spent this time in front of the sea he realized he was alive,” Mr. Morenatti said. He started taking photos from various vantage points at 11:30 p.m., and then came across the Bidwell Bar Bridge set against a blazing orange backdrop. It was one of the few places in America to offer live dance during the pandemic. civil rights investigation and the firing of all four officers involved. Italians played music on their balconies as a show of solidarity in the face of the coronavirus, which spread rapidly through the country that month. The men allowed Mr. Huylebroek to photograph them, and as they stood to the side of the road and children passed, he captured the moment. The Dakar Rally, an annual off-road endurance event that has been held in dozens of countries, was hosted in 2020 by the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula. More than 20,000 New Yorkers died in the spring surge of coronavirus infections. Shoppers scrambled to load up with supplies at a Costco in Manhattan. Even though all one needs to do is download a form from the C.D.C. She trailed them on their more than an hourlong ride to the polls, hopping out of the car to photograph them at various points. “She had been in labor for 40 hours,” Ms. Kohut said. He was working outside Fresno for two days, and at one point became trapped when the only road out of the area was engulfed in flames. He was golfing when major news outlets announced that he had lost his bid for re-election. Mr. Travelli was not among those who lost their lives. She agreed to do the article because she wanted to let people know she had a well-paying job and was living the American dream and with the onset of Covid, all that disappeared.”. “Now, whether it’s going into people’s homes or covering a protest, I am constantly making calculations as to how much risk I am taking — wondering how much time is too much in any one place.”. I was totally in shock.”. Victor Moriyama had been traveling for work in mid-March when he arrived back home in São This year has been a challenging blur, but photographers have managed to find the beauty in the world and make it memorable. “Moscow authorities are mostly reluctant to give any access to foreign media, but at this moment it is important for public relations because they are basically the first ones to do this. Erin Schaff photographed Amy Coney Barrett’s first meeting with senators on Capitol Hill not long after the White House announcement of Ms. Barrett’s nomination, which wound up being a Covid super-spreader event. A 70-year-old photographic mystery. Coronavirus pandemic; ... image caption Throughout 2020… President Trump, eager to prove he was healthy and energetic despite his recent hospitalization for Covid-19, returned to the campaign trail in Florida, claiming he was immune to the virus. The borough emerged as the center of New York City’s raging outbreak. Construction teams worked around the clock on a field hospital that was mostly built in 10 days to help cope with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. “It wasn’t very apparent when we were inside because it was so poorly lit, but as we got outside, that was the first time I really saw his face and how ill he looked,” Mr. Hicks said. “I was waiting for a car to come down the street to light the buildings with a slow exposure, then just by chance this cat walked across in front of the car, and that was the picture. In a world where life changed seemingly overnight, photographers transformed how they worked, trading intimacy for distance. Supporters of Maria Kolesnikova, an opposition leader, resisted detention by the police. During the pandemic, the drive-in theater, a low-tech vestige of another era, emerged across the country as a popular pastime. Colonel Tom Moore. To Mr. Trinca, the photograph captured a moment that was a recurring theme of every protest during that period: a stalemate. As a street photographer, Mr. Arnold had been photographing city life since the pandemic began. Jorge and Rosangela Gavilan celebrated the Fourth of July with their families on the beach at Coney Island. It was this kind of class and food insecurity sting of shame and anxiety that still stayed with this young woman so much. Visitors will soon be able to see the Mona Lisa again at the Louvre. The project flooded the Tigris River, submerging the valley and displacing 70,000 people. Hammocks, like the one being used to lift this man, became stretchers to carry coronavirus patients to boat ambulances in the hard-hit Amazon region. Medical workers tended to a patient with severe respiratory symptoms in the province of Bergamo. Megan Vassallo of the Rony Roller Circus practiced her aerial silk techniques. “It was all new for everybody,” she said. “I was really proud of us as people of color who wanted to recognize and be in solidarity with Mr. Floyd’s family,” he said. Some of the most haunting images are of emptiness. Authorities are trying to overcome this reluctancy.”. “They were praying for him on his journey, on this trail he’s going on, and for him to become president and wishing the world would get someone new,” she said. “Once I got the call I would mobilize and hop in the car and put on my P.P.E. It was heartbreaking.”, He photographed a Black police officer during a standoff in which protesters were shouting at officers. No one had taken action to secure 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a hangar in the city’s port. The museum, which has been closed since late October, is reopening on Dec. 16. These are the best photos of 2020. Copy link. "Its only store, school and even firehouse with engines inside were burned completely. It seemed like everybody knew each other, and you could see this energy of how excited they were. 2020 in pictures. “There are many people on the lower end of the economic spectrum who do not know about the C.D.C. The fires were among the deadliest on record, consuming millions of acres. “There was this random glass door in a completely ugly room with a fluorescent light that allowed a beautiful stream of light to come through,” Ms. Angotti-Jones said. 2020 In Pictures: The best photos from around the world From Black Lives Matter protests in the US and pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong to … “I found this apocalyptic scene of molten-orange sky and dark clouds of smoke over Lake Oroville," he said. Tyler Hicks had been working in Manaus, a regional capital city in Brazil, to document the spread of the coronavirus across the Amazon. Some people got to the polls on horseback: Sharon Chischilly photographed members of the Navajo Nation riding to vote in Arizona. “He didn’t move and, wow, is he dead? “It was basically unrecognizable,” Mr. 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. People lined up for food at a Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens pop-up at St. Finbar Catholic Church in the Bensonhurst neighborhood. “Every time I go I’m still amazed at what they’re willing to do.”. I was pretty aware of this as a member of the Navajo Nation myself. This year, Santa is staying behind a screen and wearing a visor. The family set up an elaborate backyard system with a plastic dropcloth strung over a clothesline so everyone could safely hug. In Times Square, an ebullient start to the year that would bring a pandemic, a recession and a race for a vaccine to restore normal life. 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. And I was only in front of it for 10 to 15 seconds at the most. A woman approached him and asked where he was going.“‘It’s no good. Rows of newly dug graves at a cemetery in Manaus, the Brazilian Amazon’s biggest city, where at one point every Covid-19 ward was full and 100 people a day were dying. Credit: Andrew McCarthy/SWNS.com . To me, it was also fascinating to see the crowd and how many people showed up far and wide to pay this last honor to him.”. And see how smiley they look, how normal it is, and it’s Santa in a box.”. Medical workers cheered for Margaret Keenan, 90, after she became the first person in Britain to receive the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. At one residence, dogs limped up to me on burned paws. The men and women in that room had been there very early. But then her mother lost her job as a military contractor and had to turn to a food bank for help. She urged Black Americans in the city, and across the country, to vote. Thousands of spectators were lined on cliffs above the water this year. More people arrived, surrounding Mr. Retamal and telling him not to take photos. Since 2019, both men have claimed to be Venezuela’s rightful president. He drove from Minneapolis to Atlanta, to pick up some things in storage, and the night he arrived there another Black man, Rayshard Brooks, was killed by a police officer. In the next frame, they were gone. Tomika Miller mourned at the coffin of her husband, Rayshard Brooks. Hussein Malla was at home in Beirut editing photos when a loud explosion rocked his apartment. “It is crazy to be there and watch these people going out into a really scary sea,” he said. A year like no other: 2020 in pictures. This is happening all over the United States. I was just confused about why they were even out there.”. Join us on a journey of the hurdles, triumphs, discoveries, and wins from 2020, and see how hope endures as we continue to explore the world. It was such an amazing perspective. "It was just kind of symbolic of the turning point of the day. This trip to Iowa was Brittainy Newman’s first time on the campaign trail, and this image came from one of her last opportunities to photograph anyone in such close quarters this year. Her finger was on the trigger. 19 Stunning Birth Photos That Were Just Named The Best Of 2020. He found a way to sneak in with the help of friends, and eventually persuaded officials to let him work there. “Every day felt like folks were trying to ask for something they couldn’t attain ever,” he said. More than a week after his death, demonstrators marched in cities including New York, Nashville, Seattle and Santa Monica, Calif. A visitor sat among the flowers, tributes and protest signs adorning a memorial at the intersection where George Floyd was fatally pinned with an officer’s knee on his neck. “The crisis is so bad that to do a funeral is like the equivalent of a year’s worth of minimum-wage salary. Related Topics. Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters. “When he came back, he felt full of energy.”. With the Jewish holiday of Purim approaching, he went to Borough Park to see whether people were being cautious or celebrating. As you do, ask yourself which pictures you would have selected if you had to pick only 12 to sum up 2020. I haven’t felt like doing much of anything since quarantine started.”. Chrissy Sample with her son Cassius, whose twin died in the womb. It was a thriving ecosystem among this organized chaos. Ms. Newman had a dry cough and was losing her sense of taste, and was isolating from her mother as a precaution. 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. “Things just started happening. “This was one of those nights we were seeing the Feds periodically coming out and clearing the park and federal buildings. This wasn’t an assignment. In July, when he learned that the body of Mr. Lewis would be carried across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., where five decades earlier he had been beaten while leading a march for voting rights that came to be known as Bloody Sunday, Mr. Ivy decided to photograph the event. 6-12 February 2021. REUTERS/Umit Bektas “It was translucent and I thought, ‘Well, if they hug, they might make some shapes with their faces,’” Mr. Bello said. Earlier in the evening, he declined to shake her hand. “So now, some 30-plus years later, I had of course grown this respect for him — respect and admiration. The framing of the doors was kind of interesting to me in terms of the composition. After protesters were dispersed with tear gas, President Trump headed to St. John’s Episcopal Church, which had been damaged in the unrest. At the time there was so much unknown, and they were cleaning up the subways as if they were a crime scene.”. Mr. Moriyama wanted to capture the protest from outside one of the city’s most famous buildings, and took the photo as dozens of residents came to their windows to express their displeasure with their president. “Once the light hit the pores of his skin and the wrinkles in his face, it was clear that he had been very ill and probably hadn’t been eating very well and was dehydrated. The fashion designer Christian Siriano showed his spring 2021 collection, featuring poufs, flamenco ruffles and face masks, at his Connecticut home. “She was not doing well — it did not appear she was going to make it,” he said. It seems theatrical and it really was, but that was a moment when there was a pause and a standoff between several protesters in the street and the Feds. Cortland, N.Y., Aug. 20; Irondequoit, N.Y., Aug. 27. My initial thought was to get behind something, so I tried to stay clear of the barrel of the gun. If the C.D.C. It was surreal.”, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg set up over 220,000 white flags as part of an art installation outside the D.C. Armory to represent the nation’s death toll from the coronavirus at the time. In February and March, Ashley Gilbertson was trying to document how New Yorkers were feeling as they watched the news about the virus devastating first Wuhan, China, and then cities in Italy. The coronavirus crisis pushed the city’s system for caring for the dead to its limits. A black standard poodle named Siba took the pageant’s top prize. Francisco España, 60, a Covid-19 patient who had spent weeks in an intensive care unit, was brought out of the hospital by medical staff for a calming look at the sea. President Trump holding up a copy of The Washington Post to show its banner headline about his acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial. I gave them all my water.”. Doug Mills has been photographing President Trump for The New York Times for the past four years. Mr. Winter, who shoots for the New York Times Opinion section, wanted a formal portrait yet one that would signify that these were different times, so he chose an outdoor setting. “It was in my apartment, completely alone and visibly nervous; for some reason I really choked,” Mr. Arnold said. He and his colleagues never officially confirmed that the man had died of Covid-19; nobody would answer their questions. Instead of fans sitting in the stands, there were cardboard cutouts. Armando Franca has been going to Nazaré, Portugal, for the past decade to watch surfers brave huge waves. The Chiefs’ 35-24 victory over the Tennessee Titans in the A.F.C. There was a lull in the briefing, so Mr. Bickel had a moment to walk around. He checked the time when he was finished photographing. The views of Manhattan from Williamsburg in Brooklyn usually draw out the crowds on a sunny day. Still cities. “It was much more emotional than I’d anticipated, and I was just like, ‘Oof, this is happening right now.’ I just stood off to one side. Share page. Lillian Foster and Teagan Glidden took a photograph with Santa at Bass Pro Shops, but there was no sitting on his lap. The trip was nerve-racking, especially when the asphalt road turned into dirt as his car crossed from government-controlled territory to the Taliban’s turf, and camouflaged men with guns approached the car. A wildfire burned more than 4,200 acres during the most active wildfire year on record for the West Coast. And many people around the country mailed in their ballots ahead of time because of fears around the virus. Demonstrators outside a burning fast food restaurant, four days after the killing of George Floyd. Businesses around the country sustained damage from widespread looting and arson. Mexico had one of the highest coronavirus death tolls in the world. The whole scene felt like a noir film. For days on end, thousands of demonstrators took to the city’s streets to denounce racial injustice and police brutality. She was the first woman to lie in state there. In 2020, a year when all aspects of life seemed transformed, so was the process of making these photographs. Mason Trinca covered the racial injustice protests that roiled Portland, Ore., for weeks. “I just went out every day no matter what and walked and looked and rubbed my face in it, but I hadn’t had a job the whole time, so this was a curveball to have a FaceTime with Jerry Seinfeld.”. They just kept saying ‘Amen, amen.’ You could feel it. Mourners said goodbye to Wilma Bassuti, a Covid-19 victim, at Vila Formosa cemetery, where workers in protective clothing were busy digging line upon line of open graves. Animal photos, portrait photography, landscape photos, aerial photos, and more make our "Best of 2020." Judge Amy Coney Barrett met with Vice President Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, as Republicans moved to swiftly secure her confirmation to the Supreme Court. Protesters gathered near the site where George Floyd was arrested. Paulo to find the city was bracing for the virus, to photograph last rites for victims of the coronavirus, injustice protests that roiled Portland, Ore., for weeks, apartment had been destroyed in the explosion. Many photographers headed to wealthy neighborhoods to document the damage but at about 5:30 one morning Mr. Sánchez went to a working-class neighborhood that is home to many immigrants. Decades-long tensions over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory exploded into open warfare between Azerbaijan and Armenia. On the last Thursday in May, days after the killing of George Floyd, Mr. Cortez was standing outside the Minneapolis police precinct that had been evacuated and set on fire by protesters. “Literally from the time you wake up in the morning you thought about it. Al Bello, a sports photographer at Getty, was asked to cover the coronavirus outbreak since almost every kind of sport had been shut down. Copy link. Lawrence Bryant was trailing a protest in St. Louis as demonstrators marched to the mayor’s house. The 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, was ratified 100 years ago. During the summer surge, the hospital created new virus wards, hired traveling nurses and ramped up testing efforts. Fifteen of its residents had been killed. The year 2020 will certainly join this list. “What this picture shows is that the people in the U.K. were actually acting a long time before the government did, which is exactly what the government has been accused of — dragging its feet.”.