2023 in review: The most memorable photos of the year
Conflict. Ambition. Injustice. Merriment. Death, life and more death. Here's a look at AP photographer's top moments of 2023, in all its contradictions.
Note: This gallery contains some graphic images
Police stand outside Planalto Palace, the official workplace of Brazil's president in Brasilia, as seen through a shattered window after supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the building on Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Windows light up the polar night on Jan. 6, 2023, in Longyearbyen, Norway, so close to the North Pole the sun is at least six degrees below the horizon from mid-November through the end of January. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
Hindu devotees crowd the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, to take a holy dip on Mauni Amavsya or the new moon day, the most auspicious day during the annual month-long Hindu religious fair "Magh Mela" in Prayagraj, India, on Jan. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Satya Prakash)
The body of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI lies in state in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, as mourners file by to pay tribute, on Jan. 4, 2023. Benedict died Dec. 31, 2022. He was 95. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
A Palestinian wounded in an Israeli bombardment waits at the hospital in Deir al Balah, in the Gaza Strip, on Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
New recruits of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) pose for a photo as they celebrate after their graduation parade in Humhama, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on Nov. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Palestinian men flee to northern Gaza as Israeli tanks block the Salah al-Din road in the central Gaza Strip on Nov. 24, 2023. A cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war began as part of an agreement that Qatar helped broker. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)
A melted television stands inside a burned out house in kibbutz Kfar Azza, Israel, near the Gaza Strip, on Nov. 7, 2023. The kibbutz was attacked on Oct. 7 by Hamas militants, who killed and kidnapped members of its community. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Doron and Tami, parents of Israeli reserve soldier captain Omri Yosef David mourn during his funeral in Carmiel, Israel, on Nov. 15, 2023. David, 27, was killed during a military ground operation in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Ethnic Rohingya disembark from their boat upon landing in Ulee Madon, on the north coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Nov. 16, 2023. Some 240 Rohingya Muslims, including women and children, made two attempts to land but were rejected by local residents. The boat left again a few hours later following another rejection. (AP Photo/Rahmat Mirza)
An Israeli flag hangs between destroyed homes in kibbutz Kfar Azza, Israel, near the Gaza Strip, on Nov. 13, 2023. The kibbutz was attacked during the Hamas cross-border attack on Oct. 7, killing and capturing members of its community. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A tourist arrives in a classic American car for a cabaret show at the Tropicana performance hall in Havana, Cuba, on Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
An Iranian demonstrator holds an anti-Israel placard during a pro-Palestinian rally at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) Square in Tehran, Iran, on Nov. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
People sign "I love you" while gathered at a vigil for the victims of Wednesday's mass shootings, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023, outside the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston, Maine. Several members of the deaf community were among the dead. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Blood is splattered in a child's room following the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas militants in Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel, as seen on Oct. 19, 2023. Nir Oz is one of more than 20 towns and villages in southern Israel that were ambushed in the sweeping assault. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
An Afghan girl and woman brace themselves against the wind in a fierce sandstorm as they try to receive aid following an earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in the Zenda Jan district of Herat province, Afghanistan, on Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
A Palestinian girl reacts as a child is carried from the rubble of a building after an airstrike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
The bodies of a father and his child, killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, lie in front of the morgue at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah on Oct. 22, 2023. ( AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Argentine Boca Juniors fans gather on Copacabana beach the day before their team faces Brazil's Fluminense at the Copa Libertadores championship match in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Kenzi al Madhoun, a four-year-old who was wounded in an Israeli bombardment, lies on a bed at Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A Palestinian boy mourns his relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah on Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
Men donning angel wings share a kiss in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, where thousands gathered to commemorate the 32nd annual Pride Parade on Nov. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
South Africa's Jesse Kriel, right, and Eben Etzebeth celebrate after winning the Rugby World Cup final match against New Zealand at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, near Paris, on Oct. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
An injured Palestinian boy cries as rescuers try to pull him out of the rubble of a destroyed building following an Israeli airstrike in Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip, on Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)
Medics prepare premature babies for transport to Egypt after they were evacuated from Shifa Hospital in Gaza City to a hospital further south in Rafah, on Nov. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Palestinians crowd together as they wait for food distribution in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
Migrants who crossed into the United States from Mexico pass under concertina wire along the Rio Grande river on Sept. 21, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Israelis killed by Hamas militants lie on the road near Sderot, Israel, on Oct. 7, 2023. Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip infiltrated southern Israel Saturday and fired thousands of rockets into the country, prompting Israel to begin striking targets in Gaza in response. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Police officers clash with pro-Palestinian demonstrators trying to enter a train station in Barcelona, Spain, on Nov. 11, 2023. Thousands of protesters had earlier taken part in a march against Israel's response in Gaza to a deadly attack by Hamas on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Israeli armored personnel carriers head toward the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Oct.13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israelis take cover as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from the Gaza Strip in Rehovot, Israel, on Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Dor Kedmi)
Mourners react beside the body of Mapal Adam, during her funeral in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 11, 2023. Adam was killed by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 as they carried out a cross-border massacre that killed over 1,200 people. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the Belt and Road Forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
A group of caimans sit on the banks of the almost dried-up Bento Gomes River in the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, on Nov. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Police officers evacuate a woman and child in Ashkelon, Israel, from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
An Argentinian who was caught in the Israel-Hamas war is greeted by relatives as he arrives at the airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel over destroyed buildings following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City on Oct. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)
People chant anti-Israel slogans while waving Palestinian flags during a rally celebrating the attacks that the militant Hamas group carried out against Israel earlier the same day, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
The Mongolian State Honor Guard enters the Saaral Ordon Government Building in Sukhbaatar Square after the welcoming ceremony with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh and Pope Francis on the square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Sept. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
Arrested members of the Wazalendo sect are seated and lined up in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Aug. 30, 2023. More than 40 people died and dozens were injured in clashes in Goma between protesters from the Wazalendo religious sect and the armed forces, national authorities said. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks to reporters as he leaves his apartment building in New York on Aug. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
A chicken grazes inside a home that was damaged by an earthquake in the town of Imi N'tala, outside Marrakech, Morocco, on Sept. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
A model runs backstage during the fashion show of Spanish designer Claro Couture at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid Spain, on Sept. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Men ride on a swing at a fair in Hagioaica, Romania, on Sept. 14, 2023. For many families in poorer areas of the country, Romania's autumn fairs are one of the very few affordable entertainment events of the year. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
Rescuers recover the body of a victim killed during flooding in Derna, Libya, on Sept. 15, 2023. The collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed thousands of people in Derna. (AP Photo/Ricardo Garcia Vilanova)
The Tidal Basin in Washington overflows its banks following heavy rain from Tropical Storm Ophelia on Sept. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
Palestinian Hamas militants transport Yarden Bibas to Gaza after kidnapping him from his home in Nir Oz, a kibbuz in Israel near the Gaza border, on Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler, sporting a new hairdo and piercings, listens during an interview as part of the NBA basketball team's media day in Miami on Oct. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Palestinian militants drive back to the Gaza Strip with the body of Shani Louk, a German-Israeli dual citizen, during their cross-border attack on Israel, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Ali Mahmud)
Texas Rangers starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi celebrates with teammates after winning an American League Division Series baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles in Arlington, Texas, on Oct. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Migrants, mainly from Central America, who were traveling to the United States inside a tractor-trailer, are detained by Mexican immigration agents and National Guard members, in Veracruz, Mexico, on July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
A woman whose family members are trapped under rubble wails after a landslide washed away houses in Raigad district, western Maharashtra state, India, on July 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
An injured demonstrator in Tel Aviv is dragged by police to be detained during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system on July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators blocking a road in Jerusalem, during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system on July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A cloud of dust envelops dignitaries as they wait for President Joe Biden to speak at the Red Butte Airfield in Tusayan, Ariz., on Aug. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A worshipper shelters against the sun with an umbrella at the Our Lady of Fatima shrine, in Fatima, central Portugal, on Aug. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Sunlight bursts through a cloud over the wreckage of a wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
A Ukrainian soldier sits inside a trench on the frontline in the outskirts of Kreminna, Ukraine, on Aug. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
A mourner cries during the wake of Indigenous regional leader Fredy Campo Bomba, in Caldono, Colombia, on July 29, 2023. Campo Bomba was killed by unidentified gunmen on July 26. (AP Photo/Andres Quintero)
Relatives of an injured victim of a powerful bomb stand around his bed at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on July 30, 2023. Earlier that day, the bomb ripped through a rally of supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in the country's northwestern Bajur district on the border of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
Residents are blocked by police as they try to reach their houses in Benijos village as a wildfire advances in La Orotava in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain on Aug. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Arturo Rodriguez)
Patricia Barragan, a friend of the family of slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, shows her stitches after a press conference at which the family announced they will sue the government for not protecting his life while campaigning, in Quito, Ecuador, on Aug. 18, 2023. Villavicencio was assassinated on Aug. 9. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
A portion of the Shimla-Kalka heritage railway track dangles above ground that was washed away following heavy rainfall on the outskirts of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh state, in India's Himalayan region on Aug. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/ Pradeep Kumar)
Chris Blowes, of Australia, duck-dives under a wave during the U.S. Open Adaptive Surfing Championships in Oceanside, Calif., on Sept. 8, 2023. More than 100 athletes with disabilities from 17 countries competed in the event. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Palestinian children walk past a mural painted in a house destroyed in recent fighting with Israel in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on June 8, 2023. Israel attacked hundreds of targets as Islamic Jihad militants fired over 1,000 rockets into Israel during five days of fighting in May. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Mourners gather for the funeral of Nachman Mordoff, 17, in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Shilo on June 21, 2023, the day after he and three other Israelis were killed by two Palestinian attackers who opened fire at a restaurant and gas station near the Israeli West Bank settlement of Eli. The attackers were killed by Israeli fire. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Children stand in the rain and look through a car window outside a camp set up in a school building for people from coastal areas displaced by the fast-approaching Cyclone Biparjoy, in Badin, Pakistan, on June 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
Lilapati Devi, from the Hindu majority Meitei community, sobs on June 22, 2023, as she visits the grave of her husband, A. Ramesh Singh, who was killed by Kukis at his home in the village of Phayeng, near Imphal, the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Children cool themselves with electric fans near the Forbidden City on a hot day in Beijing, on June 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Tetiana holds her pet dogs, Tsatsa and Chunya, in her home that was flooded after the Kakhovka dam blew up overnight, in Kherson, Ukraine, on June 6, 2023. Ukraine accused Russian forces of blowing up the dam and hydroelectric power station, located in a part of southern Ukraine that Russia controls. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Hatched salmon with yolk sacs swim alongside unhatched eggs at the Atlantic Sapphire Bluehouse indoor salmon farm in Homestead, Fla., on June 28, 2023. The company's system relies on an uncommon feature of the groundwater near the warehouse's location: Salmon need both fresh and salt water, and both are found nearby. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Palestinians celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday at Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on June 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Migrants from Eritrea, Libya and Sudan are crowded in the hold of a wooden boat before being assisted by aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, in the Mediterranean sea, about 30 miles north of Libya on June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)
Ukrainian boxer Anna Lysenko sits on a tire during a short break in her training at Kiko Boxing Club in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 11, 2023. Lysenko dedicates long hours preparing for next year's Paris Olympics, despite the unsettling sounds of explosions booming outside. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A group of recent high school grads leap as they pose for photos to celebrate their graduation in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The Moradi family sits for a portrait on a small boat in Band-i-Mir lake, a tourist attraction in the Bamiyan Valley region in Afghanistan, on June 17, 2023. The family traveled there from far away Helmand for their summer vacation. This image was taken with a box camera, once ubiquitous in Afghanistan, but mostly a lost art form due to the Taliban's intolerance of photography and the advent of the digital age. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
The pack rides during the seventh stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 170 kilometers (105.5 miles) with start in Mont-de-Marsan and finish in Bordeaux, France, on July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
Lkhaebum, 71, sets out at dawn to look for his 200 horses in the sprawling grasslands of the Munkh-Khaan region of the Sukhbaatar district in southeast Mongolia on May 13, 2023. He recently began using a motorbike to more easily search for the horses, which are never kept fenced in. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system fires interceptors at rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, on May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Supporters of Turkish President and People's Alliance's presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan cheer as they listen to him during a campaign rally in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Iryna Sokeryna holds her daughter, Liubov, as they take cover from Russian shelling while being evacuated from a neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, that was flooded after the Kakhovka dam blew up overnight, on June 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Stars light up the night sky over Lkhaebum's ger, a portable, round tent insulated with sheepskin, in the remote Munkh-Khaan region of the Sukhbaatar district in southeast Mongolia, on May 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - People pass by the body of a man who was killed and set on fire in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on June 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Fisherwomen and men pull in a net of fish off the coast of Chuao, Venezuela, in the early morning on June 7, 2023. Some women are joining a family tradition of fishing or launching new careers after losing jobs during Venezuela's economic crisis. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Smoke that drifted south from Canadian wildfires creates a think haze over New York Harbor as the Staten Island Ferry passes the Statue of Liberty on June 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Cadets practice with gas masks during a lesson in a bomb shelter in a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Members of the Vegas Golden Knights celebrate after defeating the Florida Panthers to win the Stanley Cup in Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals in Las Vegas on June 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
An art installation called "Double Ducks" by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman is viewed through a prop at Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong, on June 9, 2023. The two giant inflatable ducks marked the return of a pop-art project that sparked a frenzy in the city a decade ago. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
Migrants cross the Rio Grande into the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on March 29, 2023, a day after dozens of migrants died in a fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather to collect water from a spring to make matzoh, a traditional handmade unleavened bread for Passover, during the Maim Shelanu (Our Water) ceremony at a mountain spring in the outskirts of Jerusalem on April 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A race fan walks on the grounds of Churchill Downs before the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race in Louisville, Ky., on May 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Meredith Ellis looks at cattle in the setting sun with her 6-year-old son, GC, on their ranch in Rosston, Texas, on April 20, 2023. Ellis has seen how global warming is altering her land. She calls it an "existential crisis," the backdrop to the endless to-do list that comes with regenerative ranching. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Angel Gomez holds his cane at the Jorge Newbery international airport, commonly known as Aeroparque, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 6, 2023. Gomez, who is homeless, has made Aeroparque his home where he sleeps each evening. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Members of a band practice prior to the procession at the Veracruz church in Aguilar de la Frontera, Spain, on April 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
A mourner touches the body of a Palestinian man killed in an Israeli airstrike, in the morgue of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on May 9, 2023. The Israeli military said it killed three senior commanders of the militant Islamic Jihad group in targeted airstrikes. Palestinian health officials said 12 people were killed in total in Tuesday's attacks, including the commanders, their wives, several of their children and others nearby. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
A woman draped in a British flag smokes during the Big Lunch celebrations in London Regent's Park, on May 7, 2023. The Big Lunch was part of the weekend of celebrations for the Coronation of King Charles III. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Migrants walk across the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama on their long and difficult journey to reach the United States, on May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Clothing and garbage litter the trail where migrants have been trekking across the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of eventually reaching the United States, on May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Students wait for their teacher in the classroom at the Institution Mixte Wesleyenne Regard Divin school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on June 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers in San Diego, as they wait to apply for asylum for entry into the United States on May 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Venezuelan migrants wave a U.S. flag at a television helicopter flying over the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, on May 12, 2023, a day after pandemic-related asylum restrictions called Title 42 were lifted. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Opponents of French President Emmanuel Macron's pension plan are reflected in a billboard during a protest in Lyon, France, on March 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
A helicopter transports the 2023 Challenger SRT Demon 170 during an event to unveil the car on March 20, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A Ukrainian MSLR BM-21 "Grad" rocket launcher of the 95 Air Assault brigade fires toward Russian positions at the frontline near Kreminna, Ukraine, on March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Tiraje Kestelli lies on a seat in the company of some of the many cats she cares for at Macka park in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A tribal woman tries to catch small fish as her granddaughter dozes on her back at a paddy field on the outskirts of Guwahati in India's Assam state on March 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Police beat a protester who had hidden in a shack, after they threw a tear gas grenade inside to force him out, in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on March 20, 2023. Hundreds of opposition supporters had taken to the streets of the Kenyan capital to protest the results of the last election and the rising cost of living. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Demonstrators walk with Israel's national flags next to a banner showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest against plans by his government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Former President Donald Trump is escorted to a courtroom in New York on April 4, 2023, to appear on charges related to falsifying business records in a hush money investigation. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
A small plant manages to grow on the cracked earth of the Sau reservoir, where the water level has dropped, about 100 km (62 miles) north of Barcelona, Spain, on April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Members of the "Las Siete Palabras" brotherhood place the "Cristo de la Agonía" as part of the preparation for a Holy Week procession in Zamora, Spain, on April 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Retired Lebanese security forces and other protesters scuffle with members of the Lebanese army as they try to advance toward government buildings during a protest in Beirut on April 18, 2023. Earlier in the day, Lebanon's Parliament voted to postpone municipal elections in the crisis-stricken country, which had been planned for May, by up to a year. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
A person stands as a wave crashes against the sea barrier on the promenade of the beach in Rabat, Morocco, on Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Models pose during a photo shoot for L'Imperfetta (The Imperfect) model agency in Rome on Feb. 7, 2023. The agency represents people who don't fit neatly into the fashion industry's pre-established standards of beauty. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
A Syrian mother kisses the hand of her daughter, who was killed in a powerful earthquake that struck southern Turkey and Syria three days earlier, at the Turkish crossing point of Cilvegozu, in Reyhanli, southeastern Turkey, on the border of Syria, on Feb. 9, 2023. The girl's body will be transported to Syria for burial. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Worshippers visit the women's section of the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in the Old City of Jerusalem, on Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Photographs lean against a mirror in the room of a destroyed house in Samandag, southern Turkey, on Feb. 16, 2023, after the earthquake struck the area. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Ngwiza Khumbulani Moyo, a vintage collector, holds an old radio outside his home in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on Feb. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
A worn-out portrait of Dmytro Andriyovych, 34, sits on his grave at a cemetery in Irpin, Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Feb. 10, 2023, nearly 10 months after he was buried. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A member of the Vehibe family mourns following the burial of her relative who was killed when a powerful earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria, in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, on Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Youth play football underneath a highway overpass on Ikoyi Island, Lagos, Nigeria, on Feb. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Palestinians enjoy a day on the beach in Gaza City on March 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Javon Love, right, performs with Baby Angel, doing the splits, during "Mimosas & Heels Drag Brunch" at the Public House in Norfolk, Va., Sunday, March 5, 2023. The drag bunch was hosted by Harpy Daniels and Javon Love. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Pamela Cerruti carries clothing from Pajaro Coin Laundry in Pajaro, Calif., as floodwaters surround machines on March 14, 2023. "We lost it all. That's half a million dollars of equipment," said Pamela. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Mourners take a last look at the body of Palestinian Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16, at the family house during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Balata, Nablus, on Jan. 5, 2023. Abu Zeitoun was killed earlier that day by Israeli fire during an arrest raid in Nablus, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Los Angeles Kings' Pheonix Copley waits to warm up before an NHL hockey game against the Philadelphia Flyers on Jan. 24, 2023, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Coal miner Jonny Sandvoll poses for a portrait in the break room of the Gruve 7 coal mine in Adventdalen, Norway, on Jan. 9, 2023. Gruve 7, the last Norwegian mine in one of the fastest warming places on earth, was scheduled to shut down this year but got a reprieve through 2025 because of the energy crisis driven by the war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
Ukrainian military doctors treat their injured comrade, who was evacuated from the battlefield, at the hospital in Ukraine's Donetsk region on Jan. 9, 2023. The serviceman did not survive. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Nina Gonchar, 93, sits in her house, which was mostly destroyed by Russian forces, in the village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, on Jan. 7, 2023, shortly after the village was retaken by the Ukrainian army. Gonchar's son Vasyliy and his wife Liubov were killed by Russian shelling on July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Children ride a model of World War II-era Soviet tank during a military historical festival at the family historical tank park outside St. Petersburg, Russia, on Feb. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
A biker wearing a mask depicting President Joe Biden rides in the annual motorcycle pilgrimage to the church of the Black Christ of Esquipulas in Guatemala City on Feb. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A priest holds a sacrament bowl with a photo of Pope Francis at a Holy Mass at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. Pope Francis was in South Sudan on the final day of a six-day trip that started in Congo, hoping to bring comfort and encouragement to two countries that have been riven by poverty, conflicts and what he calls a "colonialist mentality" that has exploited Africa for centuries. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The body of a woman who was killed in a Russian rocket attack on a multistory building lies under rubble in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukraine, on Jan. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A man holds a dead body in the bucket of an excavator that is removing them from a building destroyed in a powerful earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, on Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A woman sits on the rubble as emergency rescue teams search for people under the remains of destroyed buildings in Nurdagi town on the outskirts of Osmaniye, Turkey, on Feb. 7, 2023, the day after a powerful earthquake hit southeast Turkey and Syria. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Unthinkable anguish. Casual joy. And everything in between. Associated Press photographers across the world spent 2023 chronicling the spectrum of the human experience. Here is some of what they found.
Unthinkable anguish. Casual joy. And everything in between. Associated Press photographers across the world spent 2023 chronicling the spectrum of the human experience. Here is some of what they found.