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Photographers for The New York Times trod around the globe in 2022 to document news, history and everyday life, whether embedded alongside troops on the front lines in Ukraine, chronicling lawmakers in the halls of Congress or reporting from floods and wildfires on several continents.
Near the end of the year, The Times publishes its annual Year in Pictures feature. This edition of The Morning is a tribute to the work of The Times’s photographers.
The photos
Millions of people fled Ukraine in the early weeks of Russia’s invasion, seeking refuge in other countries. Desperate families shoved their way onto a train leaving the capital, Kyiv, in early March:
Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman appointed as a Supreme Court justice. Her husband, Patrick Jackson, and her daughter Leila sat behind her on the first day of her Senate confirmation hearings in March:
For years, China’s government had stuck to its zero-Covid strategy of going to extreme lengths to mitigate the virus, before easing restrictions late this year after highly unusual protests. The government had locked down entire cities, erecting security checkpoints and other barriers. In May, a worker locked a fence around a residential area in Shanghai:
