The end of the year is always a time to look back and reflect on the year just past. Below is a collection of the best sites that review 2008 in photos. While there are some repeated images across these different sites, each has enough unique value that warranted inclusion in this list. Occasionally you will see the same situation photographed from different vantage points. Quite often you will find very clever and uniquely constructed images that tell a story or capture the drama of every day life.
Enjoy the images that made up 2008:
- BBC’s The Year in Pictures 2008
- The Boston Globe’ The Big Picture: The year 2008 in Photographs (part 1 of 3) (part 2 | part 3)
- Chicago Tribune’s Photo Essay: Joy and Sorrow in 2008 (make sure to turn on captions to get a description for each photo, though you may have to manually advance the slide show)
- MSNBC 2008 Year in Pictures (3 slide shows: news, sports, vote)
- National Geographic’s Photo of The Day: Best of 2008 (also check out their Photo of The Day: Best of The Month, starting in January)
- The New York Times’ 2008 - The Year in Pictures (A full screen slide show with 8 Sections: The Election, The Economy, The Nation, The World, Iraq and Afghanistan, The (New York) Region, Sports, Art & Entertainment)
- Sacramento Bee’s The Frame: News Pictures from 2008, Election Pictures from 2008, Feature Pictures from 2008, and Sports Pictures from 2008
- The San Francisco Chronicle’s 2008: A Year in Pictures (Broken down into select photos per month, too bad they didn’t include dates with each photo…)
- Time’s Pictures of The Year 2008
- Vanity Fair’s Year in Pictures, Part One (Part Two)
- The Wall Street Journal’s 2008 Year in Pictures (Slide show with 10 Sections: Financial Crash, Sports, Global Conflict, The Elements, Campaign, The Year’s Best, Fashion, Biggest Buys, Top Entertainers, WSJ’s Photowall)
- World Press Photos of the Year - 2008
Happy New Year!
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