BEST IN SHOW (photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) With COVID-19 restrictions still in place, Laney Armstrong queues up videos for “home church” with her husband Josh, and their four daughters, Grace, Ella, Lily and Hannah, Sunday, July 04, 2021, in Oakland, CA. Armstrong, who is biracial, and her husband, are raising their children in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints despite the church’s former institutionalized racism.
BEST IN SHOW - STUDENT (photo by Maansi Srivastava) My Nana, meaning maternal grandfather in Hindi, completes funeral rites for my Nani, meaning maternal grandmother, in New Jersey on June 14, 2021. Nani was diagnosed with COVID while living in Delhi, India during the devastating wave of the Delta variant in May of 2021. She was airlifted to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City for emergency medical treatment, where she would eventually pass away.
(photo by Amy Toensing) A group of girls from four different families gather at a campsite on Lower Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, NY, August 7, 2021. The Saranac Lakes in the Adirondacks are easy to get to but still wild and beautiful. Campsites along the lake shores, accessible only by boat often get reserved for weeks at a time by locals. From Left: Penny Hybick, Lily Kramer, Ida Schwartzberg (standing center on rock) and Keely Van Etten.
(photo by Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA) The American Legion Theater in Mayfield, KY, sustained damage by the December 10, 2022 tornadoes, tearing down the theater screen to expose damage outside of the building, February 1, 2022.
(photo by Carol Guzy/Zuma Press) Investigators and volunteers begin the grim work of chronicling civilian deaths and assessing evidence of war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine on April 6, 2022. Eyes of death stare from a body bag begging the question of his final sight before life ended.
(Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto) Members of Handmaids Army DC march to the US Capitol to protest the Supreme Court's leaked preliminary decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in its opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, May 8, 2022, in Washington, DC. The Court issued its final opinion finalizing the reversal of Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, ending the federal right to abortion access.
(Photo by Amy Toensing) Members of the Dipping Dogs (a coldwater dipping group) take a dip in Lake Champlain after breaking ice with an ax to make a hole a at Perkins Pier in South Burlington, Vermont, February 16, 2022. Many members of these groups meet every day for a cold water dip which is believed to foster better physical and mental health. From left: Noah Liberman, Tim Forkey, and Simon Mendenhall.
(photo by Alyssa Schukar for the Guardian U.S.) Mary Hill, one of the only Black woman oyster farmers in the United States, holds her family’s oyster leases in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Oyster farming was shut down in February after a wastewater line break spilled sewage into the James River. Black residents are disproportionately affected by the area’s sewage crisis, a symptom of decades of neglect by local governments.
(photo by Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post) A tenant of the Southern Towers hands a rose to his wife as a gesture of his appreciation, in Alexandria, VA, July 19, 2023. The Southern Towers, which is an apartment complex in Alexandria's West End, are home to a large community of East African immigrants, many of them airport service workers and Uber drivers who were hit especially hard by the pandemic.
(photo by Carol Guzy/Zuma Press) Soldiers and residents pray as the Russian invasion rages in their country at Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine on March 12, 2022. Many sorrowful funerals are held here for fallen Ukrainian troops killed in the war and the wails of weeping loved ones echo on the walls.
(photo by Anna Rose Layden) Members of the U.S. Capitol Police walk through the steps of the U.S. House of Representatives, rehearsing their positions as they await the arrival of the casket of former Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), who will lie in state inside Statuary Hall on Tuesday, March 29, 2022.
(photo by Alyssa Schukar for the Guardian U.S.) Braxton Miller, 5, swings near a culvert that connects the historic African American Pughsville neighborhood to the larger drainage system of Suffolk, Virginia, June 20, 2021. Residents say that new homes built for military families have caused increased flooding and sewage backup in bathtubs and toilets. Black neighborhoods are disproportionately affected by the area’s sewage crisis, a symptom of decades of neglect by local governments.
(photo by Candace Dane Chambers) Michelle Hutton, 57, tends to hoop house crops on October 25, 2021. Hutton manages an urban farm in Hyattsville, MD, one of two locations run by the agricultural training nonprofit Eco City Farms. She's a graduate of Eco's training program and has recently started a micro farm operation, Sisters of the Soil, alongside two other graduates.
(photo by Anna Rose Layden) Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) pauses to speak with reporters as he exits the U.S. Capitol following a vote on Monday, May 2, 2022.
(photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) Critical Care ICU Nurse Emily Boucher, left, watches as Anthony Church says goodbye to his daughter, Hannah Church, who is recovering from COVID-19 at Johnston Memorial Hospital’s ICU, Wednesday, June 16, 2021, in Abingdon, VA. For the nurses in the Appalachian highlands who risked their lives during the pandemic, most feel as if they fought in a war no one acknowledges.
(photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, speaks to reporters outside the Senate chambers at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Murkowski announced today that she, along with Republicans Sen. Mitt Romney, R-UT, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-ME, announced they would vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.
(photo by Elizabeth Frantz) A tear streams down Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's face as she listens to U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) speak during the third day of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 23, 2022.
(photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP) Sister Anthonia Ugwu, a nun with the Oblate Sisters of Providence, works in the chapel at Saint Frances Academy, in Baltimore, Md., Wednesday, April 27, 2022. The Academy, which today educates high school students, was founded in 1828 by Mother Mary Lange, who a year later founded the OSP. The school still educates high schoolers in Baltimore today.
(photo by Julia Nikhinson) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) celebrate outside the Capitol after the Biden Administration's extension of the eviction moratorium on Aug. 3, 2021.
(photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Recent Afghan immigrant Nasrin Noor, 39, is pictured in her Alexandria, Va. home on July 7, 2021, with one of her six children, her daughter, Fatima Noor, 8. She and her family recently made it safely to Virginia through the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program that has provided an immigration fast track for some Afghan interpreters, drivers, human rights workers, and other staff who worked alongside the US military during the last two decades of war in Afghanistan.
(photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI) U.S. Capitol Police officers stand guard during the J6 Rally at the U.S. Capitol on September 18, 2021, in Washington, D.C. People gathered to support the more than 600 people who had been charged in the January 6 pro-Trump demonstration the turned in to a riot injuring 140 officers and killing five people.
(photo by Sanwaree Sethi Robinson) Zola, 14 months, cries at home as her mother reaches out to pick her up, Feb. 24, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
(photo by Sarah Silbiger for Bloomberg) President Joe Biden meets the Washington Nationals Racing Presidents during a Fourth of July event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Sunday, July 4, 2021.
(photo by Shuran Huang/Reuters) Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks as care workers and activists march to demand congressional passage of the Biden administration's "Build Back Better" infrastructure legislation during a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on November 16, 2021.
(photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) LaKeisha Crouch, 37, uses bottled water to wash her face in the dim flashlight lit room of her home in LaPlace, La., on Sept. 4, 2021. It would be weeks before the power would be restored to her block. Category 4 Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph on August 29, 2021. It was the 16th anniversary date of Category 3 Hurricane Katrina.
(photo by Valerie Plesch for The New York Times) Laila Totakhel with her daughter at her home in Woodbridge, Virginia on August 18, 2021. Totakhel studied Islamic Law at Kabul University and became a defense lawyer working with women’s and children’s rights in Afghanistan. She was stabbed twice in the thigh by the family of the woman she helped get a divorce and who was sexually abused by her father-in-law while her husband was in Pakistan.
(photo by Tierney L. Cross) Devon Murtha, left, gives S. Fletcher, right, an undercut at home during the Omicron wave of the Coronavirus pandemic December 20, 2021.