Top 25 Photos of 2014
January 16, 2015
Here is a compilation of some of 2014’s most important photographs. These are in no particular order and the reader should be warned that a few of them contain graphic content. If you would like to visit the sites from which the photos were selected and view a larger collection, feel free to click the links below:
-from Reuters.com, National Geographic, Time Magazine, and National Geographic, people.
Ferguson, Missouri
A U.S. flag sticks out the window of a damaged hot rod car in a suburban area after a tornado near Vilonia, Arkansas, April 28, 2014
Among the Giants, Sequoia National Forest, CA
Ladies in Waiting, London
Divine Makeover, Kaveripattinam, India
Diver in Magic Kingdom, Grüner see at tragöss, Australia
Disabled children living in Termanin, Syria
Woman riding the subway in Hong Kong
The independence day, Supercell over plains in Colorado
Bad weather hits beach, large hail in Novosibirsk, Russia
A man carries a child as another lies dead after two explosions on a beach in Gaza.
500+ migrants aboard the FREMM Bergamini, a navy ship commissioned to reduce the lives of migrants between Africa and Malta
Blue Sky Days –
House boats are seen next to the expanding exposed shoreline of Bidwell Canyon on Lake Oroville in Northern California. Lake Oroville is California’s second largest reservoir, and it is currently 70% empty as a result of the state’s severe drought.
Saturday January 25th. Rioting continued between anti-government demonstrators and police in Kiev near the Dynamo Kiev Statium on Hrusehvskoho Street. Rioting went through the night as protesters sought to reinforce their positions.
Medical staff carry James Dorbor, 8, suspected of having Ebola, into a treatment facility in Monrovia, Liberia, Sept. 5, 2014.
Ferguson, Missouri
An image posted by Oscars show host Ellen DeGeneres (bottom row, 4th L) on her Twitter account shows movie stars, including Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep (bottom row L-3rd L), Channing Tatum, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong’o, Angelina Jolie (top row L-R) and Bradley Cooper (bottom row, 2nd R), as well as Nyong’o’s brother Peter (bottom row, R), posing for a picture taken by Cooper at the 86th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California March 2, 2014.
Palestinian children hold guns as they celebrate with others what they said was a victory over Israel, following a ceasefire in Gaza City, August 26, 2014.
Riot police use pepper gas against residents of the Telerj slum as they attempt to repossess the land in Rio de Janeiro, April 11, 2014.
Sochi, Russia
I was at a house with my colleagues monitoring the situation in Rafah, when I heard two huge explosions. The shout went up: ‘A hit by Israeli F16!’ Once I realized that the house had an asbestos roof, I knew there would be serious casualties. First they removed the body of an old man and then people started to shout: ‘Children under the rubble!’ I rushed to the closest position to photograph these kids.
Rafah, Gaza Strip
London, UK
Niagara Falls, Canada
Soyuz rocket as it blasts off in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Severe drought hits Nazare Paulista, Brazil
