Our collection of
the best photojournalism of 2013 concludes with a look at the months of
September, October, November, and December. News as always dominated the
period with Typhoon Haiyan battering the Philippines, the attack on the
mall in Kenya, the funeral for Nelson Mandela, unrest in Ukraine and
the conflict in Syria continuing. Here is just a glimpse of what stood
out to me in the final months of the year. For the rest of the year, see
part I and part II. -- Lloyd Young [Editor's note: The Big Picture will not publish during the week beginning December 23. We will return posting December 30.] ( 35 photos total )
A
man fans flames on a fire Tanauan on Nov. 19, in Leyte, Philippines.
Typhoon Haiyan, which ripped through Philippines, has been described as
one of the most powerful typhoons ever to hit land, leaving thousands
dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. Countries all over the world
have pledged relief aid to help support those affected by the typhoon
however damage to the airport and roads have made moving the aid into
the most affected areas very difficult. With dead bodies left out in the
open air and very limited food, water and shelter, health concerns are
growing. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) #
A
Russian Orthodox pilgrim enters the water on the West Bank side of the
Jordan River for the baptismal ceremony at the site known as Qasr
el-Yahud on the the Jordan River near the city of Jericho, Israel, on
Oct. 21. Many Orthodox pilgrims visit the site where they believe that
Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. (Abir Sultan/EPA) #
Former
French hostage Daniel Larribe is greeted by family members and French
President Francois Hollande (unseen) upon his arrival at Villacoublay
military airport outside Paris, France, on Oct. 30. The four Frenchmen,
who worked for French nuclear energy company Areva, were kidnapped on
Sept. 16, 2010, from a uranium compound in Arlit, north-central Niger
and held hostage for three years by an Al Qaeda-linked group (AQMI) in
the Sahara desert. They were released on Oct. 29 and left Niger on a
government airplane in the early hours of Oct. 30, with details how
their liberation came about still unclear. (Ian Langsdon/EPA) #
Toronto
Mayor Rob Ford responds to the Toronto police investigation dubbed
"Project Brazen 2" to the media at City Hall in Toronto, on Oct. 31.
Ford, a player in a video that police say matches one that allegedly
shows him smoking crack cocaine, said then that he had no reason to
resign. (Mark Blinch/Reuters) #
A
girl hugs her brother, a recruit from the presidential regiment, as he
takes the oath at a military base in Kiev on Nov. 16. President Viktor
Yanukovich has declared that Ukrainian Armed Forces will call the last
conscript this autumn. One of the largest post-Soviet republics, Ukraine
says goodbye to the conscription inherited from the Soviet Union by
focusing on a high-tech professional army based on a western model.
(Gleb Garanich/Reuters) #
The
leader of ultra-right wing Golden Dawn party Nikos Michaloliakos is
escorted by masked police officers to the prosecutor from the police
headquarters in Athens on Sept. 28. Greek police swooped on the
neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, arresting its leadership and hunting for
dozens of members across the country in a crackdown sparked by the
murder of a leftist musician. The arrests came a day after Golden Dawn
threatened to pull its lawmakers out of parliament, a move that could
spark a political crisis in the recession-hit country. (Angelos
Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images) #
A
woman looks on as Mount Sinabung spews ash, as pictured from Sibintun
village in Karo district, Indonesia's north Sumatra province on Nov. 18.
Mount Sinabung continued to spew volcanic ash throwing a plume 8,000
meters into the atmosphere as thousands of residents remained in
temporary shelters fearful of more eruptions, according to local media.
(Roni Bintang/Reuters) #
A
vehicle sits on a pile of debris from the destruction caused by a
tornado that touched down in Washington, Illinois, on Nov/ 17. A
fast-moving storm system triggered multiple tornadoes, killing at least
five people, injuring about 40 and flattening large parts of the city of
Washington, Illinois as it tore across the Midwest, officials said.
(Jim Young/Reuters) #
Residents
flee as winds whip flames from the Morgan fire along Morgan Territory
Road near Clayton, California in unincorporated Contra Costa County on
Sept. 9. The blaze, burning in dense, dry scrub, grass and timber in and
around Mount Diablo State Park, had scorched some 3,700 acres (1,500
hectares), forcing the evacuation of about 100 homes at the edge of the
town of Clayton. (Noah Berger/Reuters) #
Nick
Vujicic, an Australian motivational speaker who was born without limbs,
swims with sharks at the Marine Life Park in Singapore on Sept. 5.
Vujicic dived with sharks in a customized acrylic enclosure that takes
in a 360-degree view of the shark habitat at the aquarium. Vujicic is in
Singapore to give a motivational talk to a 5,000 strong audience.
(Edgar Su/Reuters) #
A
Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a blast
shortly after a car exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sept. 29. A car
bomb exploded on a crowded street in northwestern Pakistan, killing
scores of people in the third blast to hit the troubled city of Peshawar
in a week. (Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press) #
Protesters
use tear gas and throw stones during clashes with riot police in front
of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine during a rally in Kiev on Nov.
24. Thousands of pro-Europe protesters in Ukraine attempted to storm the
government building in the capital of Kiev, clashing with police who
fired tear gas to keep them back. Protesters tried to break through
police ranks surrounding the building, with some throwing stones and
hitting officers with the signs they were carrying, as police fought
back with batons, an AFP correspondent reported. (Genya SavilovAFP/Getty
Images) #
A
US Capitol Police Officer walks past a statue of Gerald Ford, who was
US president during the 1976 shutdown of the federal government, in the
Rotunda while the building was closed to tours on Capitol Hill on Oct.
1, in Washington, DC. The group of healthcare reform supporters and
politicians gathered to celebrate the implementation of the Affordable
Care Act's online insurance markets which opened today. (Brendan
Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) #
Dave
Jackson closes a mailbox with his foot after delivering the mail to a
home surrounded on three sides by a flooded Cheyenne Creek Friday, Sept.
13, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Coffee-colored floodwaters cascaded
downstream from the Colorado Rockies, transforming normally scenic
rivers and creeks into fast, unforgiving torrents and forcing thousands
more evacuations from water-logged communities beset by days of steady
rain. (Michael Ciaglo/The Colorado Springs Gazette via Associated Press)
#
Malian
campaign workers look through electoral lists at a polling station in
the Badalabougou neighborhood of Bamako, Mali, on Nov. 24. Malians voted
for legislative elections amidst concerns over security following
attacks in the northern city of Gao and the kidnapping and killing of
two French journalists in the desert city of Kidal. Some 1,080
candidates, including 135 women, are competing for 147 seats in the
elections, which will go to a second round on Dec. 15 unless one party
wins an absolute majority. (Tanya Bindra/EPA) #
Afghan
schoolchildren take lessons in an open classroom at a refugee camp on
the outskirts of Jalalabad, Nangarhar province on Dec. 1. Afghanistan
has had only rare moments of peace over the past 30 years, its education
system being undermined by the Soviet invasion of 1979, a civil war in
the 1990s and five years of Taliban rule. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty
Images ) #
Syrian
fighters of the YPG (Kurdish Popular Protection Units) man a guard post
at a building near the frontline, in Ras al-Ayn (Seri Kanye in
Kurdish), al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria, on Oct. 22. The
YPG is composed of youths from communities across the Kurdish region of
Syria. Kurds, the largest ethnic minority group in Syria, reportedly
make up nine percent of the country's population. (Mauricio Morales/EPA)
#
Demonstrators
march on Nov. 6, under the rain in Athens during a 24-hour general
strike. A general strike hit Greece on Nov. 6, paralyzing public
services and disrupting transport as EU-IMF auditors worked to finalize
the recession-hit country's next budget, looking to eliminate a fiscal
shortfall that could bring more unpopular cuts. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty
Images) #
Residents
look at a collapsed Holy Trinity parish church at Loay, Bohol on Oct.
17, after an earthquake struck central Philippines. The Philippines
started to clear roads blocked by debris on Oct. 17 as it reckoned up
the cost of the Oct. 15 powerful earthquake, with the death toll rising
to at least 158. Tens of thousands of residents of Bohol island, which
took the brunt of the 7.2 magnitude quake, remained living outdoors, for
fear of aftershocks bringing down damaged homes. (Erik De
Castro/Reuters) #
A
man walks through the 9/11 Empty Sky memorial at sunrise across from
New York's Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in Liberty State
Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, on Sept. 11. Americans will commemorate
the 12th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with solemn ceremonies
and pledges to not forget the nearly 3,000 killed when hijacked
jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a
Pennsylvania field. (Gary Hershorn/Reuters) #
A
man wraps his body with a Nelson Mandela tapestry outside Mandela's
home on Dec. 7, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mandela, also known as
Madiba, passed away on the evening of Dec. 5th, at his home in Houghton
at the age of 95. Mandela became South Africa's first black president in
1994 after spending 27 years in jail for his activism against apartheid
in a racially-divided South Africa. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) #
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