Associated Press releases a 100 photos that defined the year, accompanied by the following text.
Years come and go, sometimes before we even realize that time has passed. Events blur and run together. The news is overwhelming, and even those who follow it closely can feel a sense of unremitting vertigo. Such is 21st-century life on a connected and chaotic planet.
But people — people stand out, no matter where they may be. And moments in time have the power to freeze the world with the snap of a digital camera’s shutter, over and over around the planet — from Gaza to Ukraine, the Philippines to Haiti, Maine to the White House to California and so many points in between.
In over 200 locations globally, photojournalists with the AP are trusted eyewitnesses to news and have won 36 of AP’s Pulitzer Prizes
https://apnews.com/article/associated-press-100-photos-of-2025-ap-photos-that-defined-the-year
