Pictures of the Week: February 24 – March 2
From protests in Russia and the crisis in Syria to tornadoes in the American midwest and the 84th annual Academy Awards, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
As protests from the Middle East to Wall Street made news in 2011, a new box set of books by Steidl examines various uprisings throughout history.
The average animal doesn’t make headlines, but countless creatures have been photographed amid the chaos and destruction so widely connected to some of the year’s biggest stories. Here, LightBox looks back on a few furry friends who’ve found themselves in harm’s way this year.
Sometimes words just aren’t enough. Our photojournalism this year offers the chance to not only see, but also feel the story.
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.
Within weeks of the Japan tsunami this March, Tokyo-born photographer Kishin Shinoyama brought his camera to the scene and captured a land ripped apart.
Five months after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that killed as many as 22,000 people and displaced nearly 125,000 others, Fukushima prefecture is still struggling to clean up and move on. Photographer William Daniels traveled near the exclusion zone, capturing vacant streets, massive devastation and the people who stayed behind.
LightBox presents IdeasTap Photographic Award winner Pierfrancesco Celada’s project that deals with feelings of isolation.