National Geographic

2020 was a year full of innovation, discovery, unrest – and a new disease that redefined the way we live, how we’re born, and how we die.

Here, through the eyes of National Geographic photographers, is a special photographic issue from the year that changed everything.

With essays and reports by photographers, scientists, essential workers and those on the front lines of a fight that became global, the January 2021 edition of National Geographic is the first in the magazine’s history dedicated to the events of a single year.

Read stories from this special issue online:

• These are the history-defining moments that shaped 2020
• ‘Our job is to be part of this struggle in a very positive way.’ Ruddy Roye on photographing division in America
• ‘It was such a revelation, seeing this pandemic play out.’ Hannah Reyes Morales on capturing resilience – and tenderness – in adversity
• ‘We helped students heal from the abrupt way their year ended.’ Diana Markosian on the students whose studies became a casualty
• ‘Everybody’s got an important story to tell.’ David Guttenfelder on finding new perspectives in the age of distance

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To get access immediately to the January issue, buy a digital subscription, alternatively National Geographic can be found in all good retailers priced £6.99. 
 
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