Over the course of 2025, millions of images have been filed through our picture system from agencies who cover news all over the world.

The images taken by their teams of photojournalists, filed through local editors and international desk editors, are a mainstay of our coverage of international news, and enable the production of reactive news stories as well as features and visual essays.

Mario Tama – Getty

Members of the Mahogany Blue Baby Dolls march in the 25th Anniversary Satchmo Salute second line parade honouring the jazz legend Louis Armstrong, in New Orleans, Louisiana, 3 August.

Mario Tama is a Getty Images photojournalist based in Los Angeles, California.

A firefighting helicopter drops water on the Sunset wildfire in the Hollywood Hills as evacuations are ordered in Los Angeles, California, 8 January.

Beachfront homes destroyed by the Palisades fire in Malibu, California, 15 January.

Federal agents block people protesting against an ICE immigration raid at a cannabis farm near Camarillo, California, 10 July.

Roman Pilipey

Ukrainian servicemen of the 59th brigade mobile air defence unit fire a Soviet-made ZU-23 anti-aircraft twin autocannon towards a Russian drone during an air attack near Pavlograd, Dnipropetrovsk region, 19 July.

Roman Pilipey is a Ukrainian award-winning photojournalist based in Kyiv. He is the chief photographer for Agence France-Presse in Ukraine.

A makeshift memorial pays tribute to Ukrainian and foreign fighters with flags at Independence Square in Kyiv, 23 February, left. Natalia, 51, a combat medic, takes part in a field training exercise in the eastern region of Ukraine, 18 March, right.

People swim in a lake on a hot summer day on the outskirts of Sloviansk, eastern Donetsk region, 13 July.

Relatives, friends and others mourn at the coffins of Myroslava Kopcha and Artur Vilchynskyi, two Ukrainian soldiers of the Barracuda air reconnaissance unit killed in action in the Chernihiv region, during a funeral ceremony at St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv, 28 November.

Olympia de Maismont

Attenders pose with classic cars exhibited during the Isimi Festival 2025 at the Isimi Lagos Wellness and Polo country estate in Epe, Lagos State, 29 November.

Olympia de Maismont, the chief photographer for Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana for Agence France-Presse, is based in Lagos.

Members of the royal guard ride in the Durbar horse procession in Dutse, 1 April 2025.

A hiker leads a group along a rocky path on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria, June. The group organises hikes in a city where, despite being ringed by verdant hills, public trails are virtually nonexistent.

Boys wearing school uniforms in Jos, Nigeria, 27 February, left. A model wears a creation by the designer Michelle Adepoju, the founder of Kilentar, before a SS26 collection launch during Fashion Week in Lagos, 1 November, right.

Abdel Kareem Hana

People stand on top of rubble as they watch and celebrate a mass wedding ceremony in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, 2 December.

Abdel Kareem Hana is based in Gaza for the Associated Press. He received an International Photography Award in 2025 for his series Children of Gaza: Surrounded by War.

The Israeli captive Arbel Yehoud, held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since 7 October 2023, is escorted by fighters as she is handed over to the Red Cross on 30 January.

A table, surrounded by the rubble of destroyed homes and buildings, for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, on the first day of Ramadan in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 1 March.

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, 26 July, left, and rush to collect humanitarian aid dropped by parachutes into Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, 5 August, right.

Displaced Palestinians flee Gaza City with their belongings along the coastal road in Nuseirat, toward the southern Gaza Strip, 19 September.

Julia Demaree Nikhinson

Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin, 15 August, at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska.

The Associated Press staff photographer Julia Demaree Nikhinson, previously based in New York, has been documenting Washington DC. She was one of only seven photojournalists allowed to Donald Trump’s swearing-in ceremony as the US president.

Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk in the Rotunda of the US Capitol for Donald Trump’s inauguration, left. Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the US by the chief justice, John Roberts, as Melania Trump holds the Bible, right.

Republican members of Congress reach to shake hands with the speaker of the house, Mike Johnson, after he signed Trump’s bill of tax breaks and spending cuts in Washington DC, 3 July.

Tymofii Lifyrynko, 11, waits out an air raid alarm in an underground shelter in Shostka, Ukraine, 16 October.

The National Guard patrols in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, Washington, 28 November.

Ronen Zvulun

Einav Zangauker, the mother of the hostage Matan Zangauker, after the announcement that Israel and Hamas had agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire, in Tel Aviv, Israel, 9 October.

Ronen Zvulun is an Israeli photographer working for Reuters, based in Israel.

Emergency staff at the scene after missiles were launched from Iran to Israel, in Tel Aviv, 16 June, left. People take shelter amid missile attacks from Iran, in Tel Aviv, 17 June, right.

Israeli soldiers exit a tunnel underneath the European hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, 8 June.

Protesters are sprayed with water as police try to disperse them, after families of hostages called for a nationwide strike to demand the return of all hostages and an end to the war in Gaza, in Jerusalem, 17 August.

Eloisa Lopez

A man crosses a muddy street where cars are piled up after being swept away in the floods brought on by Typhoon Kalmaegi in Bacayan, Cebu City, Philippines, 5 November.

Filipino Catholic devotees surround the carriage carrying the statue of the Black Nazarene as its annual procession begins on its feast day in Manila, Philippines, 9 January.

Eloisa Lopez is a photographer for Reuters based in Manila, Philippines. In addition to national news she travelled to the Vatican for the pope’s confirmation.

A boy sleeps on sacks of garbage along the polluted Pasig River on World Environment Day in Manila, Philippines, 5 June.

Catholics react to black smoke indicating that no decision has yet been made to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, 7 May, left. Nuns celebrate amid white smoke indicating a new pope has been elected, 8 May, right.

Elke Scholiers

Afghan migrants cross the Torkham border in Afghanistan, after the government of Pakistan intensified its forced deportation drive, 15 September.

Elke Scholiers is an independent photojournalist and documentary film-maker from Brussels, Belgium, based in New Delhi, working across west and south Asia.

A family rebuild their home in the destroyed neighbourhood of Jobar, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, 16 April.

The tail of a plane that crashed shortly after take-off sticks out of a medical college hostel in Ahmedabad, India, 12 June.

Children engage with an ANP policeman of the Police District 11 in Kabul, Afghanistan, 17 September.

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, after their delegation-level talks at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, 5 December.

Luis Tato

Members of the Malagasy army ride on a pickup truck to secure the area around Lake Anosy after protests calling for the resignation of the president, Andry Rajoelina, in Antananarivo, Madagascar, 11 October.

Luis Tato is a photojournalist based in Nairobi, Kenya, and the chief photographer and photo coordinator for East Africa and the Indian Ocean for AFP. A World Press Photo contest winner in 2025, he covered Kenya, DRC and the unrest in Madagascar.

Youths push the casket of Boniface Kariuki, a street hawker who died days after he was shot by Kenyan police during nationwide protests against police conduct and government policies, before his funeral in Nairobi, 11 July.

Protesters run for cover at a protest outside the police headquarters over the death of the blogger Albert Ojwang in police custody, in Nairobi, Kenya, 12 June.

Inline roller hockey players, some from the Kenyan ice hockey national team, gather to practice and teach junior players who cannot afford ice-rink time at a car park in downtown Nairobi, 26 January.

Hannah McKay

People attempt to cross the Channel from northern France to reach Britain, 25 August.

Hannah McKay is a Reuters staff photographer based in London, covering UK news and international stories.

The body of Guy Illouz, taken hostage alive from the Nova festival during the deadly 7 October 2023 attack and returned to Israel as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, is carried during his funeral in Israel, 15 October.

The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, stands next to his wife, Victoria, after delivering his keynote speech at the Labour party’s annual conference in Liverpool, 30 September.

A bomb disposal robot works by the body of an attacker at the scene of an incident in which a car was driven at pedestrians and people were stabbed outside a synagogue in north Manchester, 2 October.

Morgan Harlow

Hannah Botterman, Rosie Galligan, Zoe Harrison, Jess Breach and Maddie Feaunati celebrate with the Women’s Rugby World Cup trophy inside the dressing room after England’s victory in the final against Canada at the Allianz Stadium, London, 27 September.

Morgan Harlow is a freelance sports photographer based in the West Midlands. After several years training and competing in the pool, Morgan decided to combine her interest in photography with her passion for swimming and sports.

Hannah Newbrook competes in the Aquatics GB Diving Championships in Smethwick, UK, 7 June.

Jess Shaw of England in action during the Netball Horizon Series match between England Vitality Roses and New Zealand Silver Ferns at the AO Arena, Manchester, 19 November.

Niranjan Shrestha

A protester wearing a police flak jacket shouts slogans at the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepal’s government ministries and offices, during a demonstration against a social media ban and corruption in Kathmandu, 9 September.

Niranjan Shrestha is an​​ Associated Press photojournalist based in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Police secure the site of a building set on fire by a pro-monarchist group during a protest in Kathmandu, Nepal, 28 March.

Monks play badminton in front of a monastery at Kagbeni, in the Mustang region, about 300 miles west of Kathmandu, 17 April.

Protesters celebrate at the Singha Durbar after it was set on fire during a demonstration against a social media ban and corruption in Kathmandu, Nepal, 9 September.