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The year's best photojournalism

Here are the most striking images of 2017

Picture of Kelly Gonsalves
by Kelly Gonsalves
December 29, 2017

The Eagle Creek wildfire burns as people play golf in North Bonneville, Washington.

(REUTERS/Kristi McCluer)

A tomato farm in Izmir, Turkey.

(EPA/ERDEM SAHIN)

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Big cat trainer Alexander Lacey embraces a lion during the final show of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus in Uniondale, New York.

(REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)

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Former FBI Director James Comey takes his seat at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C.

(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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A capsized boat adrift in the Florida Keys following Hurricane Irma.

(Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

The Women's March in Washington, D.C.

(REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

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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.

(REUTERS/Mike Blake)

The cast of Stranger Things celebrates their win at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.

(REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)

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Impalas at the Veszprem Zoo in Hungary.

(EPA/Boglarka Bodnar)

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Team Kazakhstan trains for the 2017 FINA Swimming World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

(EPA/PATRICK B. KRAEMER)

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Rohingya refugees are helped out of the Naf River as they cross the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.

(REUTERS/Hannah McKay)

A horse flees the Long Valley fire near Doyle, California.

(Lassen County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS)

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Protests in Caracas, Venezuela.

(EPA/MIGUEL GUTIERREZ)

A Comic-Con attendee uses the bathroom at the ExCel exhibition center in London.

(REUTERS/Peter Nicholls)

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Migrants sit on the deck of a boat after being rescued in the Mediterranean Sea.

(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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The charred remains of a neighborhood devastated by wildfire in Santa Rosa, California.

(ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP/Getty Images)

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President Trump welcomes 11-year-old Frank Giaccio as he cuts the Rose Garden grass at the White House.

(REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

Locals gather around two sperm whale carcasses at a beach in Indonesia.

(EPA-EFE/HOTLI SIMANJUNTAK)

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People dressed as Santa Claus ski in Verbier, Switzerland.

(EPA-EFE/VALENTIN FLAURAUD)**See last year's best photojournalism**

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