2023

A Year in Photos

This curation celebrates photojournalistic work published between December 2022 and November 2023. The featured images come from talented and dedicated photographer grantees and reporting partners within the Pulitzer Center network. Their work exposes us to underreported stories from all around the globe. This reporting contributes to strengthening communities, developing solutions, and engaging us to take part in the victories and challenges present in our ever-changing world.

These photos were selected from hundreds of powerful storytelling moments to help visualize and humanize many significant moments captured in Pulitzer Center-supported reporting this year. Photography puts a face to the numbers, distilling complex data into observable stories that center on real people.

In Peru, one photographer lived with groups of informal miners involved in armed confrontations. Off the coast of Florida, another photographer plunged below the ocean surface to capture the stark white of corals that "stand like ghosts." These images demonstrate the photographers' patience, resilience, and dedication to the multifaceted craft of storytelling.

Together, they describe the unique and shared struggles we face and how communities around the globe confront and solve these challenges, from climate change and its effects on laborers to Indigenous language preservation. Join us in celebrating a powerful year in visual storytelling by viewing the photos and reading behind-the-scenes insights from the photographers.

Trees and leaves surround a Native American woman dressed in traditional clothing.

WASHINGTON, United States

Tulalip Tribe Chairwoman Teri Gobin is shown on the Tulalip Reservation. Gobin says she doesn't think the American public “is ready to admit what their ancestors did." She adds, “There’s still a lot of healing that needs to happen.” In 1819, the federal government instituted a program of state-sponsored abductions and forced assimilation of Native American children, who were sent to boarding schools.

Annie Marie Musselman | Rolling Stone

A man stands in a forest with a gun over his shoulder.

Serra do Cachimbo, Brazil

Homem faz vigilância na Terra Indígena Paraná. O povo indígena Panará foi reassentado em sua terra original há 25 anos e, embora sua população esteja aumentando, eles ainda enfrentam a pressão dos invasores.
A man keeps watch on Panará Indigenous land. The Panará Indigenous people resettled on their original land 25 years ago, and while their population is increasing, they still face pressure from invaders.

Rogério Assis | Folha de São Paulo

A man is submerged in a river, facing toward the right and looking out into the distance with a serious expression.

Pará, brazil

Didi Juruna bathes in the Xingu River, near where he and other Indigenous river monitors and researchers have camped for the night. Indigenous people are working together with researchers to track the impact of the Belo Monte hydroelectric project on fisheries in Brazil’s Xingu River.

Dado Galdieri | Science Magazine

A woman wearing a black bikini top and a reddish skirt or shorts sits on a bed’s multicolored blanket

LORETO, PERU

Pamela sleeps in the same bed where she was stabbed. She believes her mother's soul saved her that night. An uncalculated number of LGBTQ people were persecuted, tortured, and executed in the Peruvian jungle by subversive groups during a time of violence that plagued the country from 1980 to 2000. More than two decades later, the nation’s government has yet to document these events to understand the scope of the hatred.

Marco Garro Pardo | Connectas

A woman stands in a kitchen with three children. She is holding a baby in her arms.

Bebnine, Lebanon

Najwa Kassar and her husband Hussein have six children. Hussein has been without work for over two years, and they can no longer afford enough power to keep their refrigerator running. The stress of poverty has led mothers and fathers in Lebanon to make the heart-wrenching decision of taking their children to orphanages as the nation’s economy collapses.

Dalia Khamissy | 1843 by The Economist

A boy wearing a cowboy hat plays with a dinosaur toy. The dinosaur casts a shadow over the wall and the boy's face.

Zambales, Philippines

A young boy (name withheld) plays with his toys during a power outage. He lives with his adoptive parent and her family. Child-caring agencies struggle to find families for children in the Philippines due to "negative beliefs about adoption."

Bernice Beltran | Philstar Global

A drag queen performs in the dark with red specks of light.

Maryland, United States

Aradia LaFay performs at Safe Space Cumberland in Cumberland, Maryland, a small Appalachian town with a thriving drag scene. “I started to accept more of my homosexual side when I was in the army,” says LaFay.

Michael O. Snyder | Virginia Quarterly Review

An elderly woman nuzzles a parrot close to her face.

CALLERÍA, PERU

Nelita Campos and her parrot. She’s encouraging the children in her village to learn at least a little Iskonawa. Campos, an Iskonawa woman in Ucayali, Peru, is the last lucid speaker of the Iskonawa language.

Florence Goupil | The Washington Post

"When a language dies, a culture that made our planet a diverse and precious place also dies. When we talk about linguistics, many theories emerge about how language is born from our perception of the world and how it is linked to our way of thinking.

Iskonawa words have an origin in the Iskonawa thinking and the cognitive relationship with the biodiversity—and we will never know the mysteries of this ancient culture deeply rooted in the forest. This is the impact of portraying this story about a language on the verge of disappearing: languages are essential to communicate but also to understand other worlds."

Florence Goupil

A man in a collared shirt stands in front of a collection of images and portraits on a wall.

O'Svay, Cambodia

Chief Sai Fang in his home in Koh Cheu Teal Touch village. His two granddaughters traveled to Thailand early last year in search of domestic work. As fisheries collapse in the area, many young people are leaving to find alternative ways of making a living.

Andy Ball | The Third Pole

A person wearing goggles dives underwater to collect seaweed.

Tamil Nadu, india

Thangamma, about 80 years old, gathers seaweed off Pananthoppu beach, Pamban island, Tamil Nadu, India. Seaweed extracts are used in a booming global food industry. An estimated 5,000 women gather seaweed in the shallow reefs around Pamban island, which they sell to local factories.

Anushree Bhatter | NPR

A man rides a motorbike while drinking from a water bottle at sunset.

Asunción, Paraguay

Christian Duarte makes a brief stop in the capital's Sajonia neighborhood to hydrate at 7pm. Delivery drivers work eight to 12 hours a day, even 14. Much of that time they are exposed to heat that is considered a high health risk.

Elisa Marecos Saldívar | El Surti

A woman stands in a dark room in front of a laundry line of clothes. She is looking down and wiping her face with her sari.

Maharashtra, India

Sumitra Devi wipes a tear as she narrates how female sugarcane workers migrate every year and face sexual harassment in fields during sugarcane-cutting seasons. In India's sugar industry, women work up to 18 hours a day, without access to health or sanitation facilities.

Meenal Upreti | Climate Home News

"The Human Cost of Sugar opened my eyes to pay more attention, not just as a filmmaker but also as a woman. Looking at girls with sindoors in their foreheads, girls who are never supposed to become women this soon, hysterectomies of mass villages, and generations of exploitation; I can not have a Kit Kat bar without visualizing their dejected faces."

Meenal Upreti

A woman in jean overalls stands in a field.

GEORGIA, UNITED STATES

Silvia Moreno Ayala says she loves her work as a field crew leader for a South Georgia family-owned farm, yet her doctor has warned her that this type of work is a threat to her health.

José Ibarra Rizo | TIME

A UPS driver stands in uniform in front of a UPS delivery truck, with a dog to his left.

GEORGIA, UNITED STATES

UPS driver Barkley Wimpee, 28, collapsed with heat stroke last summer while on his Georgia delivery route. Air conditioning the delivery vehicles should be a no brainer, he says.

José Ibarra Rizo | TIME

A man wearing a brimmed hat bends over next to a green field.

Tierra Blanca, PERU

La deforestación de grandes áreas en la Amazonía, como las que ocupan los menonitas, ha sido posible gracias a que han sabido aprovechar la legislación peruana. El Ministerio Público de Perú está investigando a los menonitas por deforestación y posibles vínculos con el tráfico de tierras.
Mennonites and thousands of colonists take advantage of loopholes and confusion in agrarian laws to deforest large areas in the Amazon rainforest. The Public Ministry of Peru is investigating Mennonites for deforestation and potential links to land trafficking.

Hugo Alejos | Convoca

Nine men in miners hats stand in a mine and look at the camera.

Condesuyos, Peru

Artisanal gold mining in the mountains of southern Peru has brought riches, but also conflict. In the last three years, 20 miners have been killed and another 65 have died due to work-related accidents or landslides in the Arequipa region. Despite the difficulties, informal or illegal artisanal miners do not abandon their work for their families.

Roberth Orihuela | Convoca

"Esta historia implicó convivir con los mineros informales. Algunos son evasivos, pero otros quieren mostrar que solo buscan trabajar para mantener a sus familias. La actividad involucra a padres, esposas y hasta hijos, quienes arriesgan sus vidas, pues se exponen a accidentes laborales y ataques armados de otros grupos de mineros.

En un enfrentamiento, ocurrido unos días antes de llegar a la zona, dos hombres perdieron los brazos luego de recibir descargas de dinamita y otros más fueron gravemente heridos. Las autoridades peruanas de justicia y de fiscalización brillan por su ausencia."

"This story involved living with informal miners. Some are evasive, but others want to show that they are only looking to work to support their families. The activity involves parents, wives and even children, who risk their lives, as they are exposed to work accidents and armed attacks by other groups of miners.

In a confrontation, which occurred a few days before arriving in the area, two men lost their arms after receiving dynamite blasts and others were seriously injured. The Peruvian justice and oversight authorities are conspicuous by their absence."

Roberth Orihuela

A husband and wife sit on a couch wearing face masks. The man has his arm around the woman, and the woman is also wearing eye goggles.

Jalisco, Mexico

Efrén Lepe and Rosalía Medina, parents to 32-year-old César Lepe, have tried multiple types of masks to minimize the risk of their son being reinfected with COVID-19. Despite the family’s efforts, César has been infected at least four times.

Quetzalli Blanco | palabra

An elderly man feeds his wife, who is sitting cross-legged next to him. He feeds his wife by hand; both are missing fingers due to the effects of leprosy.

Maharashtra, India

Maruti Bondre, 70, feeds lunch to his wife Chandrakala, at the hostel for leprosy patients and for leprosy-cured rehabilitated persons, in the village Anandwan.

Rohit Jain | Feminism in India

Five people sit in a semicircle on a patio outside. It is a sunny day, and the people are smiling and laughing.

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES

Five Indigenous doulas make up Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services, a Seattle-based organization that provides cultural-specific care to pregnant women and their babies in the first thousand days of their baby’s life.

Jessica Lázaro Moss | Native News Online

A grandmother walks through a field of tall, dry grass with her two grandchildren.

CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES

Judith Surber with her grandchildren on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. The opioid crisis facing the nation has infiltrated the community, causing destruction and havoc along its path, leaving families like hers shattered.

Justin Maxon | The New York Times

"The story is a moment of redemption for Judy. She has received so much vitriol from people who have said she enables her adult children and blames her for their addiction.

What they don’t understand is that the true consequences of a tough-love approach, compounded by a history of colonization, can perpetuate harm for Native Families. She did not want to be one more voice telling her children they are not lovable or worthy. The choice for Judy is between seeing her children die alone on the street or continuing to love them through their journey. She chooses love every time.

Her two young grandchildren, whom she raised since they were babies, have been taken away from her because the stigma so often painted across people navigating addiction also adheres to those close to them. We both hope this story will be a catalyst to get them back. It's a rare thing to have someone facing the fentanyl crisis get the opportunity to tell their own story!"

Justin Maxon

A man stands by a window in a dark room, holding a lit candle.

Arara, Colombia

Grandfather Camilo Ramos Manuel, a 66-year-old traditional Tikuna doctor, prepares to examine a pregnant woman and ask for a good path for the baby. “The shamans see," says Ramos. "They know how to see the spirits, to remove the bad spirits from the body." Indigenous communities in the region have higher-than-average suicide rates, the most alarming symptom of a wide-ranging mental health crisis.

Miguel Winograd | La Silla Vacía

A man sits on a couch and looks out the window, holding his forehead in tears.

Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland

Krzysztof Sowinski sits on his couch where his late wife, Marta, rested in the days before she died. Over a year after Marta’s death, Krzysztof has not moved anything from this couch or his display of ultrasound photos and other items. It is likely, reproductive-rights advocates say, that many women who die from pregnancy complications would be alive if not for Poland's restrictive abortion laws.

Kasia Strek | TIME

Three nurses walk down a hallway with their backs facing the camera.

MANILA, Philippines

“I don’t know of any nurse who doesn’t want to go abroad,” a doctor at Diane’s former hospital in Puerto Princesa said. As U.S. healthcare workers quit in droves, record numbers of migrant nurses from the Philippines and elsewhere are filling the void.

Geric Cruz | Quartz

Four people sit and stand smiling in a living room. One person is kissing the pregnant belly of another, while two people sit on the couch.

VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES

Best friend Page Johnson speaks to Tonithia Reid’s stomach during an Afrocentric blessing ceremony in Reid’s apartment in Alexandria, Virginia. Friends and family were invited to affirm their support of Reid and her baby during the ceremony.

Karen Kasmauski | Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism

A man stands in a forest holding a drone controller. The drone is visible overhead, with a green background of tall trees.

Laranjal do Jari, brazil

Researcher Eric Bastos Gorgens pilots a drone. Gorgens and his crew of six researchers spent days trekking through dense, dangerous forest to find and document the tallest known tree in the Amazon.

Pablo Albarenga | Nature

A diver in scuba gear examines coral underwater.

FLORIDA, United States

Roxane Boonstra examines a “tree” of healthy elkhorn coral at Coral Restoration Foundation’s Tavernier nursery, the world’s largest coral nursery in the ocean. The summer’s extreme marine heat waves caused a mass bleaching event in the Florida Keys, a reef area which had already declined by 90 percent due to past heat waves.

Jennifer Adler | Vox

"Hauntingly beautiful bleached elkhorn corals (Acropora palmata) stand like ghosts on a Florida reef. Going back to Florida felt like seeing an old friend but I wished it was under happier circumstances. I've spent the past year in California but lived the better part of a decade living in Florida. This was a emotionally difficult story to photograph in my home waters—seeing the stark, white corals takes your breath away and brings tears to your eyes."

Jennifer Adler

Two medical professionals dressed in blue look over an alpaca laying on a hospital bed, preparing the alpaca for surgery.

PUNO, PERU

A medical team prepares an alpaca for a laparotomy, a surgical procedure that allows researchers to explore the reproductive organs.

Alessandro Cinque | Internazionale

A test tube containing an alpaca fetus in yellow liquid is held under a microscope.

PUNO, PERU

An alpaca fetus is analyzed under a microscope at the Quimsachata Research and Production Center.

Alessandro Cinque | Internazionale

An aerial shot of many sheep crowded together. A few sheep are marked with blue.

Kujalleq, GREENLAND

Sheep are transported on a boat in the upper Narsaq fjords, en route to a nearby slaughterhouse. “Greenland is probably the only place in the world where meat is cheaper than lettuce or vegetables,” says greenhouse founder Rasmus Damsgaard Jakobsen. The country is also unique in viewing climate change as a positive prospect.

Bradley Secker | POLITICO

Transformers and cables are shown outside.

Pavlodar, Kazakhstan

To power their bitcoin mines in Ekibastuz, crypto construction company BTC.kz shipped in huge transformers and kilometers of high tension cable. Bitcoin miners flocked to Kazakhstan to take advantage of cheap energy and loose regulation. Now most of them have moved on, leaving little behind but moldering equipment and social tension.

Peter Guest | MIT Technology Review

"I went to northeast Kazakhstan to try to capture the physical imprint of the cryptocurrency industry. It’s a rugged place, with livid scars from heavy industry—the perfect place to show the weird contrast between the ephemeral digital world and the infrastructure needed to keep it going.

What you find in Ekibastuz and Temirtau—smut-stained streets, belching coal plants and corruption, is as much the story of crypto as the Bahamian luxury lifestyles of the industry’s disgraced wunderkind, Sam Bankman-Fried."

Peter Guest

A hand holds up a yellow thermometer in front of a yellow background.

Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico

Aldo Quesada checks the temperature of a fermentation in progress in the cellar at Viñas del Tigre.

Jake Naughton | National Geographic

Garden shears with a red handle on top of purple grapes.

Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico

Grape growing is hard, physical work, as is winemaking. Young producers get to know how tiny changes in environmental conditions influence their grapes.

Jake Naughton | National Geographic

A man in a white lab coat stands at the back of rows of white barrels, in a desert mountain landscape.

Valparaíso, CHILE

Marine biologist Gabriel Renato Castro, on the land where he built his laboratory of tank photobioreactors. The project, which aims to enhance temperature resistance and strengthen root growth in plants, could help Chile’s lucrative avocado farms reduce their high water consumption and environmental burden.

Karl Mancini | Revista5w

A woman in a white hat stands on a fishing boat and looks up.

MAINE, United States

Krista Tripp checks her radar as she navigates out of South Thomaston Harbor to lobster in Maine. The normally cold waters off the coast of Maine are warming, changing fishing on the rocky coast of northern New England.

Josh Morgan | USA TODAY

A young woman in a white t-shirt holds a plant and takes a selfie with her cell phone.

West Gonja, GHANA

A young Ghanaian takes a selfie with a seedling on Green Ghana Day in Damongo.

Nana Kofi Acquah | Foreign Policy

A large group of soldiers practice pushups in a dusty clearing

Kayin State, Myanmar

Dave Eubank (center, in hat) leads trainees through a pushup session as part of a “Ranger Run” they must complete to graduate. Eubank, a former U.S. Special Forces officer and ordained Christian minister, started the Free Burma Rangers (FBR) to provide medical care and aid to people resisting the Southeast Asian nation’s military junta. In an unusual arrangement, FBR and ethnic resistance groups cooperate, drill, and work out side by side under Eubank’s direction.

Jason Motlagh | Rolling Stone

A woman shows a cellphone photo of four children.

Mogadishu, Somalia

Qaali Dahir Mohamed, 18, shows a picture of her nephew Mohamed Shilow Muse, far right, on her cellphone. The Intercept published a Pentagon investigation of civilian deaths from a U.S. drone strike in Somalia. Qaali’s sister, Luul, and niece, Mariam, were killed in the attack.

Omar Faruk | The Intercept

A young child stands under a tree holding a broom.

Saint-Louis, Senegal

After floodwaters displaced thousands, families in Saint-Louis, Senegal, fled to an inland displacement camp. Saint-Louis is wrestling with the effects of a rapidly warming planet.

Andrew J. Whitaker | The Post and Courier

A man in Afghanistan poses for a photo with his hand touching the side of his face.

KABUL, Afghanistan

Actor Nabi Attai, 74, in Kabul. When the Taliban banned movies, Nabi Attai had nothing to fall back on. In his 70s, the actor is now destitute. Using images from a wooden box camera, Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd chronicled how people’s lives changed in Afghanistan two years after the Taliban’s return.

Rodrigo Abd | Associated Press

An older man with a cane and brown suit stands in front of a stone wall.

Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sead Đulić, a theater director and head of the national Association of Anti-Fascists, paints over derogatory graffiti about Tito, the leader of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. The most significant anti-fascist architectural landmark in the former Yugoslavia has been neglected and left as a ruin for decades. Having survived the 1990s Bosnian war, the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar now faces its biggest threat—and possible disappearance—as organized neo-fascists are intent on destroying the necropolis and all it stands for.

Chris Leslie | The Guardian

A woman with long hair turns her face away from the camera against a beige background

CALIFORNIA, United States

Linda poses for a portrait at her home in California on June 18, 2023. She is renting a room in a house that she shares with her three sons. Linda was forced to leave her home in Ixtaro, Michoacán, Mexico, in 2021 as she and her children fled a cartel that took control of her town.

Toya Sarno Jordan | El País

"Our goal wasn't just to draw readers into the story's violence, but to capture the strengths of this community—their resilience, their pride in their labor, and the bittersweet joy that coexists with fear.

The process was demanding. Protecting the identity of Linda and her family, who fled violence to seek asylum in the US, meant relying solely on evocative imagery to bridge the gap. But through these photographs we aimed to bring listeners closer to Linda and her family, to feel the beauty of their hometown and the chilling touch of loss that drove them away.

By amplifying Linda's story, we hoped to shed light on the complexities of Michoacán, a land where verdant life thrives alongside the scars of violence. It's a story that deserves to be heard, not just for its tragedy, but for the strength and resilience of its people."

Stephania Corpi
reporting partner to Toya Sarno Jordan

A woman wearing a black top sits in front of a purple wall where a giant portrait of a young man hangs.

Belgrade, Serbia

Gang killings are rife in Serbia. Mara Halabrin Melikova lost her son, whose portrait hangs in her Belgrade apartment, in a killing that remains unsolved.

Jehad Nga | The New York Times

Pará, Brazil

Bauxite, a mined material with high concentrations of aluminum, travels 800 miles down the Amazon River to the Atlantic Ocean, passing communities, churches and infinite shades of green. Aluminum used to help build the popular electric Ford F-150 can be traced back to Brazil, where, in the heart of the Amazon, bauxite is being clawed from a mine that has faced allegations of pollution and land appropriation.

Jonne Roriz | Bloomberg

A woman stands in tall grass near the water at dusk.

Louisiana, UNITED STATES

Shirell Parfait-Dardar is the first female chief of her tribe. Louisiana's Indigenous tribes have been protecting the coast for generations—and they’re still fighting to have their voices heard.

Akasha Rabut | Rolling Stone

A man filling an underground tank with water sits on the back of a truck with a baby. A young woman stands at right.

UTAH, UNITED STATES

Taylor Black, 63, fills an underground cistern with potable water he hauled home from a well in Goulding, Utah, with help from his 1-year-old grandson, Bryant, and daughter Erika. Black also has to haul water for his horses and cattle. Thousands of Navajos have no clean running water at home, a crisis magnified by drought and government neglect.

Richard Tsong-Taatarii | Searchlight New Mexico

A young person uses a white bucket near dirty water.

Garissa, Kenya

On the edge of Garissa, Kenya, water is scarce. Many dig down through the sand on the bed of the dry Tyaa River to uncover pools of dirty water.

Larry C. Price | Inside Climate News

Two people pass a building and an oil derrick.

CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES

Signal Hill is a wealthy outlier amid Southern California’s oil extraction and production sites, which are more commonly situated in working-class Black and brown neighborhoods.

Tara Pixley | High Country News

"As I've done this work I've learned so much about the city of LA and the state of California: it's toxic attributes, how these places treat the poorest people, the people whose voices and needs are drowned out or ignored in favor of capitalistic complicity, the constant desire to make more money at all costs which has for so long translated to 'drill, baby, drill' in this country.

But what I've learned more than that is how communities come together in the face of cancer, debilitating illness and the exhaustion experienced by the most hard working. This project means an opportunity to celebrate those people who do not define their worth by the money they make but by the lives they positively impact. I have turned my camera toward those who labor tirelessly to see justice realized for all."

Tara Pixley

Young people stand on a platform along a river.

Pará, Brazil

Young Kayapó people play in the Branco River next to the Turedjam village. The river has been taken over by illegal mining in recent decades and its waters are dirty and contaminated.

Lalo de Almeida | Folha de São Paulo

An elephant stands close to a truck along a road.

Chachoengsao, Thailand

A wild elephant steps in front of a truck carrying sugarcane in Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Sanctuary, Chachoengsao province. Around 15 years ago, the elephant population reached a point where the sanctuary alone was unable to provide enough territory and food for the elephants. As a result, the elephants started leaving to find food and increase their territory, causing a dangerous ongoing conflict between farmers and villagers who live in the areas surrounding the wildlife sanctuary.

Luke Duggleby | Bangkok Tribune

NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES

Kendrick Ransome is a co-founder of Freedom Org, and he runs Golden Organic Farm on land his family has owned for over 100 years in rural Pinetops, North Carolina. He grows healthier food for his family and for his community in a majority-Black county dotted with food deserts.

Justin Cook | NC Newsline

Two people stand on snow and ice overlooking a body of water

Cusco, Peru

The Phinaya community is located 4,830 meters (15,850 feet) above sea level, in Cusco, Peru. It is the highest town near the snow-capped Quelccaya, which is rapidly thawing due to global warming.

Angela Ponce | The Guardian

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