- Getty Images released its top 100 most powerful news photos of the year.
- Photos show key moments in the 2024 presidential election and conflicts in the Middle East.
- Photographers captured the aftermath of natural disasters and phenomena like the solar eclipse.
Getty Images released a compilation of the most powerful news photos taken by their photographers in 2024.
Throughout the year, photojournalists captured the defining images of the biggest news stories related to politics, military conflicts, natural disasters, and other global issues.
“Regardless of the assignment, Getty Images photographers and videographers produced honest, moving, and gripping images of humanity at its highest and lowest moments and painted a picture of the world in all of its complexity without bias or manipulation, producing a trusted and memorable historic document of 2024,” Sandy Ciric, senior director of news photography at Getty Images, told Business Insider.
Here are 30 of the best news photos of the year.
