From a snapshot that captures a tender moment during the perils of war to a portrait that documents the jovial spirit of a celebrity the world lost this year, here are some of our editors' favorite images from 2023:
1. Displaced Somali women carry firewood past a donkey carcass in the scrubland near Doolow, Somalia on Jan. 12, 2023. The worst drought in four decades is imperiling lives across the Horn of Africa.
2. A woman, without head covering, at the Tajrish Bazaar in Tehran, Jan. 28, 2023. Defiant resistance to Iran's mandatory hijab law has spread across the country after nationwide protests that erupted last year.
3. Asylum seekers look over towards the U.S. National Guardsmen from the Mexican side of the border in Juarez, Mexico, on march 29, 2023. Venezuelan asylum-seekers looking for refuge face a hard border.
4. Marines stand by as President Joe Biden arrives to host a barbecue with active-duty military families on the South Lawn at the White House on Tuesday, July 4, 2023.
5. Bill Nighy in Los Angeles, Jan. 7, 2023. “When people talk about the mechanics of acting, I’m wary of it,” said Nighy, who stars in “Living” as a repressed British bureaucrat given a terminal diagnosis.
6. Jimmy Buffett during promotions for the “Escape to Margaritaville” musical Dec. 8, 2017. “Buffett was blessed with an irresistible Southern, devil-may-care charm. Usually, joie de vivre is a sign you’re not paying attention. But with Jimmy, it was ensorcelling,” Obituary by Maureen Dowd.
7. Former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard his private plane in Columbia, S.C., on Jan. 28, 2023.
8. Flowers are left at the base of the Rock, a stone traditionally painted almost daily by students at Michigan State, that reads "How Many More?" following a mass shooting on the campus in East Lansing, Mich., Feb. 14, 2023. A gunman killed three people and wounded five others at Michigan State University.
9. Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr, 37, says goodbye to his wife, Yana, 31, and daughter Ivanna, 5, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on March 10, 2023. They came to visit him for 10 days in Kramatorsk, a strategic hub that lies directly west of Bakhmut.
10. A man watches volunteers search for bodies in the old quarter of Antakya, Turkey, three days after the earthquake, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023.
These images are part of 2023: Year in Review, a special collection of 970 photographs that were shot by photojournalists of The New York Times.
Perfect for year-end photo roundups in print or online, the 2023: Year in Review collection is now available to license in full, as eight separate packages or as individual shots drawn from each.
The eight themed packages cover general news, portraits, obituaries, American politics, climate change, the global migration wave, the war in Ukraine and mass shootings around the United States.
Preview the full collection here.
