From the camaraderie of the Tour de France to snipers in Syria, Sarah Gilbert selects her favourite pictures of the year
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Sarah Gilbert, with interviews by Homa Khaleeli and Emine Saner
The Guardian, Tuesday 25 December 2012 19.00 GMT
Manhattan blackout by Iwan Baan I took this from a helicopter, after the storm in New York, as we flew over Manhattan. It was a two-day scramble to organise it and to get across the city, since nothing was working – the tunnels and bridges were closed, there was no transportation. It was a cold, three-hour helicopter ride to and from the city. So when I took the picture I was trying to direct the pilot while I was freezing. It was essentially the water that knocked out the power. I thought it was important to show it in that way – it made us realise how fragile we are against nature and water. Photograph: Iwan Baan/Getty Images #
After the storm, Gandia by Pedro Armestre On 29 September I saw on the news that a tornado had ripped through the east of Spain. When I saw the intensity of the devastation I decided to travel there. Gandia is about 400km from Madrid, where I live. It was festival time and usually it is filled with people, lights, music and laughter. But this time it was different. The situation was quite strange: the creaking of twisted metal, the debris after the tornado, and everything closed and empty. It was so bleak. I exchanged a few words with the man in the picture; he said that they had lost everything. Photograph: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images #
Bombs over Aleppo by Maysun I’ve covered other conflicts, but never an open war like this in Syria. There was a strong battle between the Syrian army and the rebels, with the army bombing the whole neighbourhood with heavy artillery shelling. I took the picture very carefully on the rooftop, as army snipers were shooting on the street. I was wearing a bulletproof vest and ballistic helmet. They help, but won’t save you if you get bombed. I think this photograph shows the horror that exists in Syria. When I see the picture today I feel anger and even more sadness about everything that was and still is happening in Syria. Photograph: Maysun/EPA #
Yida refugee camp by John Stanmeyer In the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan there were 60,000 displaced people and a malnutrition crisis, with three to five children dying everyday. I spent a week in the camp, and met the family of Hassan, who had died overnight of complications from malaria. I spent half a day with them as they carried out the final ablutions of the Islamic tradition, bathing the body and carrying it to a makeshift grave. The picture is more of a vignette. The whole family is involved in burying their loved one. The picture reminds you that we are all part of the earth and we return to it. Photograph: John Stanmeyer/VII #
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/interactive/2012/dec/25/best-photographs-2012-in-pictures
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