National Geographic (January 2021)

133 pages. Special issue: The Year in Pictures. 2021- 71 Photographs From an Unforgettable Year. Features:*Five of our photographers reflect on 2020 *Essay: In a year of striking images, why we could not look away *The year that tested us: How much can any of us withstand? Deaths by coronavirus, until morgues are packed. Calls for racial equality, answered with backlash. The Earth scoured by locusts, hurricanes, fires. How much? And then how much more? *The year that isolated us: A funeral with no mourners. A family visiting through a window. A virtual happy hour. Around the world, billions of people simultaneously experienced aloneness, separated from companions and solace *The year that empowered us: The phrase "I can't breath" took on multiple meanings, from hospital wards treating gasping COVID-19 patients to street protests where deaths in police hands triggered long-stifled cries for justice *The year that hope endured: Extraordinary developments occur even during terrible times. Scientists make discoveries, conservationists score victories, social movements spark change. And love, in all its forms, finds a way.