TIME’s Top 10 Photos of 2023

[Tennesseer]

As Time is behind a paywall, the top ten pictures are at the very top of the article so you might be able to see them. Further down the article are detailed information about the pictures. Two of the ten pictures I am going to post and the details behind it will be posted in the SPOILER as a close up picture might be unsettling to some posters.

The first picture is a young girl dancing on the grave of her friend who died in the Uvalde, TX school shooting. They must have been very good friends. And she misses her.

The other picture are the remains of a Russian soldier in Ukraine run over by multiple vehicles. We must remember that this soldier was someone's son or husband.

TIME’s Top 10 Photos of 2023

What makes a photograph memorable? This tangled question has been passed around the TIME Photo Department for decades. The truth is, the answer is ever changing. As we grow into each new era of photography and technology, every day we are engulfed in hundreds of photographs, scrolling through feeds and reading through articles.

Over the years photos have reached corners of the world some never thought they would see. They have immersed us in conflict and unimaginable disaster. They have made us research, question, and appreciate. As we sit with all of that, what we’ve come up with is that a memorable photograph is one that makes us feel something. We feel moved by an image’s composition and lighting that draws our eye to each edge of the frame. We feel compelled to publish an image because of its significance in bringing the story to life.

The photographers who make these images not only make us feel, but they are feeling too. When they take the image and witness what is happening right in front of them, when they spend days and months living alongside the people they are photographing, or when they are hit with the reality of the meaning of an image long after they take it. These images and these stories are only a small portion of these experiences. But these are the images that made us, the photo editors at TIME, feel the most this year. - Kim Bubello

TIME’s Top 10 Photos of 2023

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"Caitlyne Gonzales, who lost many of her friends in the shooting, sang and danced to Taylor Swift songs at Jacklyn Cazares' grave in Uvalde, Texas, on April 19. One year after 19 children and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary, the cemetery where most of the victims are buried has become an anchor in their families' lives."




Tyler Hicks, a senior staff photographer for the New York Times, created many compelling images from Ukraine this year. Yet this image stuck with the TIME photo team from the moment we saw it in late September. The image depicting what remains of a Russian soldier lying in the middle of a road in the Donetsk region of southern Ukraine left us bewildered and wanting to know more.

[resolution]

So many tragedies this year.

[tractor]

Very sad. 2024 is not looking much better. I'm not sure what it will take for things to change, but our world is certainly crashing down around us. Be the positive light amount the chaos, it's the only hope we have.

[Opti]

Jan 1, 2024 9:35:13 GMT -5 tractor said:

Very sad. 2024 is not looking much better. I'm not sure what it will take for things to change, but our world is certainly crashing down around us. Be the positive light amount the chaos, it's the only hope we have.

I think we are turning, but I do not expect much momentum until Spring into Summer. Winter is always the quiet season of planning. Implementation is for later like Spring and Summer.

I see hope, but I also plan to be that hope in a more active way too.

[Opti]

I like the first photo from TIME Tenn posted. The second one, its hard to draw conclusions without knowing how and why he died in that road to begin with. Was he a sniper killing people in the vehicles and then in the end run down by the beginning of the convoy? Or was he simply a dead body that fell off a truck that contained other dead bodies and no one wanted to stop in enemy territory to retrieve him. IDK.
Things not that different where done to young women by Hamas and these women were just free spirited civilians not soldiers. Did the TIMES have a pic of that dead girl in the truck with her obviously broken legs? At least the male soldier was unlikely to have been raped until death. And then kept as a trophy after expiration from this world.

[billisonboard]

Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

The Book of Bokonon 1:5

With all the individual horrors that take place, I have chosen to believe in my version of reincarnation and karma. We are each here again and again to learn the lessons we need to learn. 

[Tennesseer]

Jan 1, 2024 9:46:16 GMT -5 Opti said:

I like the first photo from TIME Tenn posted. The second one, its hard to draw conclusions without knowing how and why he died in that road to begin with. Was he a sniper killing people in the vehicles and then in the end run down by the beginning of the convoy? Or was he simply a dead body that fell off a truck that contained other dead bodies and no one wanted to stop in enemy territory to retrieve him. IDK.
Things not that different where done to young women by Hamas and these women were just free spirited civilians not soldiers. Did the TIMES have a pic of that dead girl in the truck with her obviously broken legs? At least the male soldier was unlikely to have been raped until death. And then kept as a trophy after expiration from this world.

The pictures were taken by Time reporters and/or their assigned photographers. Time reporters and photographers cannot be everywhere around the world at the exact moment something occurs. So the deceased girl in the truck is not a valid point as it pertains to the linked article.

As to the dead soldier run over multiple times and squished into nothing but his remaining dried clothes is an after the fact photo. We do not know the circumstances as to how he originally ended up in the road. But common human decency does not exist during war conditions which is sad.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Here is CNN's collection.

[Opti]

Jan 1, 2024 12:11:59 GMT -5 Knee Deep in Water Chloe said:

Here is CNN's collection.

This was a rabbit hole for me, but it was good to remember all that happened. 

[Artemis Windsong]

When I was growing up, dancing on someone's grave meant the dancer was glad the person was dead.  I believe in life after death so a celebration doesn't seem bad to me.

[Artemis Windsong]

Jan 1, 2024 10:27:05 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

The Book of Bokonon 1:5

With all the individual horrors that take place, I have chosen to believe in my version of reincarnation and karma. We are each here again and again to learn the lessons we need to learn. 

I agree billsonboard.  I have had hints of former lives.

[toomuchreality]

I was able to see and read the article. Thank you for posting it! Touching, in so many ways.