The Year in Pictures 2023
Overview
Every year, our photo editors try to capture the best photojournalism in one intense presentation. The Year in Pictures is a way to commemorate the big news events from January to December: the ones that traumatized us mixed in with some moments of bliss.
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In that bliss category, take one girl’s 13th-birthday celebration, which featured a squealing, rapturous night of music and dance with Taylor Swift. An image of the girl, Gabbi Jones, decked out as a Swiftie before a big show in Southern California, shows her beaming behind braces, as though all is well in the world.
We, of course, know otherwise. Another young Swiftie was photographed as she sang and danced — while alone at the grave of one of the friends she lost last year in a mass shooting at her elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Years are like that: Awfulness can be jumbled together with ecstasy in impossible-to-reconcile ways. So you’ll find images here — collected by two photo editors, Jeffrey Henson Scales and Tanner Curtis — of war and fashion. A devastating wildfire and a day spent playing in the surf. A plume of smoke from a train accident and an ultrafancy debutante ball. Military standoffs and the tennis champion Coco Gauff, lying on the court after winning the U.S. Open.
The images gathered here, a tribute to the brave photographers who scrambled into harm’s way to capture them, remind us that there were so many tears in 2023. This special section of the Year in Pictures was published on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.
Specifications
Dimensions: 12" x 22"
Material: Newsprint
Processing time
Estimated processing time: 1-2 business days
Specifications
Dimensions: 12" x 22"
Material: Newsprint
Processing time
Estimated processing time: 1-2 business days
