Models get their makeup backstage during the Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kiev, Ukraine, 01 September 2020. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)

A Highland Cow at sunset on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, Wiltshire, United Kingdom on October 18, 2020. (Photo by David White/PictureExclusive)

With the world feeling more distant than ever, photographers were this year called on to translate their vision of the new humanity into images seen through their own eyes. Here: May. (Photo by Ami Vitale/2021 Lavazza Calendar)

An Afghan boy walks past a destroyed Russian-made tank, in Kabul, Afghanistan on February 24, 2020. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)

Mammal Photographer of the Year and Mammal Society Member’s prize winner: Foxhall Zafira by Roger Cox. (Photo by Roger Cox/Mammal Photographer of the Year 2020)

A starling jealously guards a seed station in the back garden of the photographer’s Michigan home in January 2024. (Photo by Lisa Cavanary/Solent News)

Australian model Shanina Shaik attends the Interview x Equinox party during NYFW on February 7, 2024. (Photo by Rupert Ramsay/BFA.com)

English-Albanian singer Dua Lipa preps for her performance at the Brit Awards with a vocal warmup early March 2024. (Photo by Dua Lipa/Instagram)