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2020 in review

A look back at our best photography of 2020

Photographers take us outside our bubble in 2020.

Stephanie Arnett archive page

December 31, 2020

Even amidst stay-at-home orders and restricted mobility, the photographers commissioned for stories this year were able to connect us with events around the world.

Comcrop worker harvesting greens — Inside Singapore’s huge bet on vertical farming

Finding homes for the waste that will (probably) outlive humanity

Climate migrant with suitcase — Asia’s biggest climate migration

photograph of two protestor arms holding up smartphones in the night — How to turn filming the police into the end of police brutality

Lincoln Labs' cubesat for our Predictions issue

JF20 cover — the Youth issue

Unmade in America

Recompose Katrina Spade — The startup turning human bodies into compost

Recompose Katrina Spade

Jiwei Li and Deb Raji — The TR35 Innovators of 2020

Diallo — The professionals who predict the future for a living

This restaurant duo wants a zero-carbon food system. Can it happen?

VertiVegies worker inspects plants — Inside Singapore’s huge bet on vertical farming

Hong — Inside China's unexpected quest to protect data privacy

The professionals who predict the future for a living