60 of the Most Powerful Photos Taken This Year
A breathtaking selection from the International Photography Awards
From powerful photographs that document significant events in this tumultuous year to delicate portraits of tender moments in people’s lives to inspiring vistas and extraordinary encounters with the natural world, these photos are stunning testimonials of the times we live in.
The winners of this year’s International Photography Awards (IPA) were chosen out of more than 13,000 submissions from around the world. With 13 major categories, from news and events to people, nature, and sport, there is a dizzying range of subjects to account for, but each winner is incredibly powerful in its own way. Hossein Farmani, IPA’s founder and president, called this year’s winners “the best images I have seen in the last decades.”
In these unprecedented times, this year’s entries reflect some of the biggest challenges facing our generation — not the least of which is dealing with a virus which, for the first time, is an event that has affected every person on earth in some way. We see photography at its best — whether covering the Covid pandemic, or the world’s uprising against injustice — the images captured are breathtaking.
