In 2011, Yuri Kozyrev traveled to seven countries covering protests and uprisings for TIME, including Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, Russia, Greece and Tunisia. Here, he writes about the remarkable experience and what all the revolutions had in common.
A cat with two faces, rail tracks buckled by the shifting earth after an earthquake in New Zealand, the police rescue of a girl held hostage by her father—these are just a few of the compelling and surprising images to have emerged beyond the main news cycle this year.
From Egypt’s historic elections and Hillary Clinton’s Myanmar visit to German anti-nuclear protests and Nepal’s bird flu outbreak, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev documents violent clashes between protesters and Egyptian central security forces as well as the tense atmosphere leading up to Egypt’s landmark democratic elections on Nov. 28, the first since the February ouster of long-ruling President Hosni Mubarak.
From renewed riots in Egypt and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s capture to the pepper spray outrage at University of California-Davis and the Kabaddi World Cup, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
At just 24, Ed Ou is already repped by an agent, and just won the Young Reporter Award at Perpignan, the international photojournalism festival, for his photos of young Somali soldiers which were featured on the front page of the New York Times. Ou spoke with TIME about some of his work from the past year, what photographers he admires and where he’d like to go next.
Laura El-Tantawy’s work, The Veil, looks beyond the stereotypes and misconceptions of women who choose to wear a veil.
Photographer Thomas Dworzak, on assignment for TIME, captures post-revolutionary Cairo, Egypt.
A look back at Dominic Nahr’s assignment in Egypt in photographs and sound.
TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr documents the tumult, tragedy, and ecstasy of the historic revolution in Egypt.
