Ed Ram Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee crossing the Irpin river in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 5. The giraffe had been caught in a snare set by poachers and, without help, would likely have been killed soon by humans or predators. Abhishek Chinnappa-Getty Images Kenya Wildlife Service rangers pour water over a giraffe they rescued and sedated just outside of Garissa on March 6. Laurel Chor A general view of the vandalized office of the Sri Lankan president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, inside his official residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on July 15. Alberto Sxenick-EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Workers dig out copper and cobalt ore from an open-pit mine operated by artisanal mining cooperative COMAKAT in Shabaka in southern Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 6. Katherine Pomerantz, Director of Photography Firefighters at work against a forest fire in the village of A Cañiza, Pontevedra, Spain, on July 31. The same stars that have been hovering above for billions of years, only this time different. But for a moment, when the team at NASA released the first James Webb Space Telescope image and the universe was revealed in ways never seen before, the world was unified in wonder. Sometimes the same image that inspires hope for some provokes despair in others. A young boy near the scene of a school shooting where 21 people were killed. Sometimes the photo shows not the change, but the necessity of it, a reminder that the status quo cannot continue. The first ascension of a monarch in the modern age.

Another Supreme Court class picture, yet this time with the first ever Black female Justice. But many capture a familiar scene that’s also unlike anything that’s come before. Not every photo displays profound change: images from the Westminster Dog Show, now in its 146th year, are frequently included on this annual list. The following 100 images, an unranked selection carefully curated by TIME’s eight-person team of photo editors, aim to show in pictures that this year was indeed different. It’s what was said when young people started rising up in the streets of Iran in support of women’s rights when the first Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine when millions of people showed up to vote to send a country in a new direction. That was the sentiment humming in the background, and sometimes roaring quite loudly, throughout 2022.

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