One from 2013. (PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN STANMEYER)
The photographs powerfully tell the story of our history, including wars, human tragedies, scientific advances, and creatures saved from the brink of extinction. National Geo’s photo editors selected a representative photo for each year from 2012 to 2017 and provided an explanation.
year 2013
Writer Paul Salopek undertook a 33,000 km journey across four continents to trace the path of human dispersal over 60,000 years. Photographer John Stanmeyer accompanied him on the first leg of the journey. In this photo, Somali migrants gather on the coast of Djibouti to pick up the low-cost mobile phone signal. (Reference article: “33,000 km long: Walking the path of humanity”)
One from 2012. (PHOTOGRAPH BY ANAND VARMA)
2012
This is no ordinary male crab (Loxorhynchus grandis). It’s a crab that became female because it was parasitized by a barnacle-bound sugar beetle. The sugar parasite uses its ability to expand the crab’s abdomen and fill it with a sac containing its eggs. Photographer Aanand Varma has been photographing the world of parasites who control the minds of their hosts for many years. (Reference article: “The world’s scariest mind-controlling parasite”)
One from 2014. (PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLIE HAMILTON JAMES)
Year 2014
Grizzlies were in a dangerous situation in the 20th century. Threatened with extinction due to hunting and habitat loss, numbers had dropped to 600 by the 1960s. However, thanks to the United States’ Endangered Species Act (ESA), the situation has improved and by the 2010s there were nearly 1,000 individuals living in the Yellowstone region alone. Photographer Charlie Hamilton James photographed a grizzly bear eating a bison carcass in Grand Teton National Park. (Reference article: “Yellowstone Conservation Experiment Station”)
One from 2015. (PHOTOGRAPH BY LYNN JOHNSON)
2015
Susan Potter died in February 2015, leaving her body immortal. Fifteen years earlier she had agreed to donate her body to science. Mr Potter’s body, encased in polyvinyl alcohol resin, was photographed by photographer Lynn Johnson and, soon after the photo was taken, was frozen and cut into 27,000 thin sections for use by medical students for years to come. come back to life as a digital corpse that you can learn about over time. (Reference article: “The story of a woman who continues to live in a virtual world”)
One from 2016. (PHOTOGRAPH BY WAYNE LAWRENCE)
2016
Siblings Julie, Antonio and India Abron receive bottled water from the Third Fire District in Flint, Michigan. In 2016, photographer Wayne Lawrence created a series of portraits that tell the story of how the lives of Flint residents have changed since the 2014 water crisis. The crisis led to the resignations of city and state officials, whose failure to act has put residents, including around 12,000 children, are at risk.
One from 2017. (PHOTOGRAPH BY LYNN JOHNSON)
2017
Katie Stubblefield lost face at the age of 18. Three years later, in 2017, surgeons gave her a new face. She became the 40th person in the world to undergo face transplant surgery. National Geographic photographers Maggie Steber and Lynn Johnson followed the transplant process for their incredible story on the cover of the September 2018 issue.
“It was a challenging scene that called into question everything we knew about identity,” said Johnson, who filmed a surgeon cutting into donor Adrea Schneider’s face. “Her face is not just tissue. She IS a human being.” (Reference article: “Woman who lost her face promises a new beginning after a successful face transplant”)
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