The best photojournalism of the last decade

When a recent Top 10 list of journalism stories skipped photojournalism, we decided to create our own.

Photographer Stephanie Sinclair has traveled the world to tell the stories of child brides like Tahani, posting with a former classmate, Ghada, also a child bride outside their home in Yemen. Of Tahani’s early days of her marriage to Majed, then 25, she said: “Whenever I saw him, I hid. I hated to see him.” The project spurred a nonprofit dedicated to empowering women and ending child marriage.

PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHANIE SINCLAIR
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In the past decade, photojournalism exposed one of the massacres that prompted 750,000 people to flee Myanmar. It revealed the lives of some of the millions of girls who are forced to become child brides each year. It showed the medical miracle of a new face, the horror of sexual assault in the military, the impunity of death squads in the Philippines.

Last week, NYU’s journalism school declared 10 works of journalism as having the greatest impact of the past decade.



Missing: Photojournalism.



So we’ve spent the last few days looking at scores of the greatest photojournalism stories of the past decade. They weren’t hard to find. We settled on 10 to get the discussion going,

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