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The year in photos: AP’s most memorable photos of 2023 – Associated Press

Photo: Fisherwomen and men pull in a net of fish off the coast of Chuao, Venezuela, in the early morning on June 7, 2023. Some women are joining a family tradition of fishing or launching new careers after losing jobs during Venezuela’s economic crisis. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The mission of photojournalism is to capture moments that represent — and, at their best, truly reveal — the endless spectrum of the human experience.

Associated Press photographers across the world have spent 2023 doing exactly that — sometimes at great risk or personal exertion, always with ethics and compassion and quality, and with an eye forever trained toward the memorable.

When those photographers encounter the world, though — from Israel and Gaza to Brazil, from Mongolia to the American heartland and beyond — often they have no idea what they’ll find until it is upon them.

Here is some of what they found in 2023, in all its contradictions: Conflict. Ambition. Anger. Injustice. Striving. Merriment. Poverty. Blood. The quest for excellence, no matter the arena. The human body, in glorious and panicked motion and, too often, sadly stilled. Struggle — to protect loved ones, to navigate a warming planet, to escape strife and oppression, to survive nature’s capriciousness.

Death, life and more death — in all its unwelcome permutations. Bursts of joy in unexpected places. Tears upon tears upon tears. Wars that have just begun, wars that continue, wars already almost forgotten. The gamut of human existence.

Today, in a connected and absurdly complex world, a single year contains far more cataclysmic news than we can ever begin to process. Ways to make sense of it are rare. But using technology to freeze moments — capturing them in unforgettable photography — offers a small chance to pause and say: At this particular hour in our civilization, this is what happened to us.

Police stand outside Planalto Palace, the official workplace of Brazil’s president in Brasilia, as seen through a shattered window after supporters of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the building on Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Children ride a model of World War II-era Soviet tank during a military historical festival at the family historical tank park outside St. Petersburg, Russia, on Feb. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Nina Nikiforovа, 80, cries outside a church in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 11, 2023, after attending the funeral of her son Oleg Kunynets, a Ukrainian military serviceman who was killed in the east of the country. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Palestinians enjoy a day on the beach in Gaza City on March 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Afghan brides and grooms participate in a mass wedding ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Migrants cross the Rio Grande into the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on March 29, 2023, a day after dozens of migrants died in a fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Former President Donald Trump is escorted to a courtroom in New York on April 4, 2023, to appear on charges related to falsifying business records in a hush money investigation. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

A villager pours water into a canister as others gather around a well to draw water in Telamwadi, northeast of Mumbai, India, on May 6, 2023. Tankers bring water from the Bhatsa River after it has been treated with chlorine. There have been protests in the region since so much of the river water is diverted to urban areas, including Mumbai. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system fires interceptors at rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, on May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers in San Diego, as they wait to apply for asylum for entry into the United States on May 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Venezuelan migrants wave a U.S. flag at a television helicopter flying over the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, on May 12, 2023, a day after pandemic-related asylum restrictions called Title 42 were lifted. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Tetiana holds her pet dogs, Tsatsa and Chunya, in her home that was flooded after the Kakhovka dam blew up overnight, in Kherson, Ukraine, on June 6, 2023. Ukraine accused Russian forces of blowing up the dam and hydroelectric power station, located in a part of southern Ukraine that Russia controls. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

The Moradi family sits for a portrait on a small boat in Band-i-Mir lake, a tourist attraction in the Bamiyan Valley region in Afghanistan, on June 17, 2023. The family traveled there from far away Helmand for their summer vacation. This image was taken with a box camera, once ubiquitous in Afghanistan, but mostly a lost art form due to the Taliban’s intolerance of photography and the advent of the digital age. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Sunlight bursts through a cloud over the wreckage of a wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Palestinian militants drive back to the Gaza Strip with the body of Shani Louk, a German-Israeli dual citizen, during their cross-border attack on Israel, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Mahmud)

Israelis killed by Hamas militants lie on the road near Sderot, Israel, on Oct. 7, 2023. Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip infiltrated southern Israel Saturday and fired thousands of rockets into the country, prompting Israel to begin striking targets in Gaza in response. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, on Oct. 8, 2023, the day after Hamas militants from Gaza carried out a cross-border massacre in Israel. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

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