The year's best photojournalism

Here are the most striking images of 2017

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The Eagle Creek wildfire burns as people play golf in North Bonneville, Washington.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kristi McCluer))

A tomato farm in Izmir, Turkey.
(Image credit: (EPA/ERDEM SAHIN))

Big cat trainer Alexander Lacey embraces a lion during the final show of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus in Uniondale, New York.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson))

Former FBI Director James Comey takes his seat at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik))

A capsized boat adrift in the Florida Keys following Hurricane Irma.
(Image credit: (Reuters/Carlo Allegri))

The Women's March in Washington, D.C.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton))

Air Force One flies past the broken windows of the Mandalay Bay hotel, from which gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of thousands of concertgoers in Las Vegas.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mike Blake))

The cast of Stranger Things celebrates their win at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni))

Impalas at the Veszprem Zoo in Hungary.
(Image credit: (EPA/Boglarka Bodnar))

Team Kazakhstan trains for the 2017 FINA Swimming World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
(Image credit: (EPA/PATRICK B. KRAEMER))

Rohingya refugees are helped out of the Naf River as they cross the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Hannah McKay))

A horse flees the Long Valley fire near Doyle, California.
(Image credit: (Lassen County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS))

Protests in Caracas, Venezuela.
(Image credit: (EPA/MIGUEL GUTIERREZ))

A Comic-Con attendee uses the bathroom at the ExCel exhibition center in London.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Peter Nicholls))

Migrants sit on the deck of a boat after being rescued in the Mediterranean Sea.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti))

The charred remains of a neighborhood devastated by wildfire in Santa Rosa, California.
(Image credit: (ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP/Getty Images))

President Trump welcomes 11-year-old Frank Giaccio as he cuts the Rose Garden grass at the White House.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Carlos Barria))

Locals gather around two sperm whale carcasses at a beach in Indonesia.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/HOTLI SIMANJUNTAK))

People dressed as Santa Claus ski in Verbier, Switzerland.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/VALENTIN FLAURAUD)**See last year's best photojournalism**)

Kelly Gonsalves
Kelly Gonsalves

Kelly Gonsalves is a sex and culture writer exploring love, lust, identity, and feminism. Her work has appeared at Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and more, and she previously worked as an associate editor for The Week. She's obsessed with badass ladies doing badass things, wellness movements, and very bad rom-coms.