A runner competes in the Great Wall Marathon at the Huangyaguan Great Wall outside Beijing, China, May 18, 2019. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)

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)

American actress and singer Victoria Justice thanks Alabama for “the good times” early May 2022. (Photo by victoriajustice/Instagram)

Valik Vladimirovich plays dressed as a soldier in Stoyanka outskirts Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, May 30, 2022. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)

A couple embraces at the railway station in Kramatorsk, on May 20, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Sergey Shestak/AFP Photo)

American actress Joey King in the second decade of May 2024 shares a silly selfie sipping a cocktail. (Photo by joeyking/Instagram)

English singer and songwriter Dua Lipa (right) seems to be happy hanging with British model Sarah Lysander early May 2022. (Photo by ellis_kaplan/Instagram)

Yang Estrada, 5, plays with a crab on the street in La Panchita, Cuba on May 28, 2022. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)