The best images from 2023

EL PAÍS takes a look back at some of the most eye-catching photography of the year

Dec 31, 2023 - 18:24Updated Dec 31, 2023 - 18:50CET

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Antarctica, December 9, 2022. Two journalists from EL PAÍS accompanied scientists studying climate change at the Union Glacier Joint Scientific Station for a report published on February 24.Claudio Álvarez

A girl looks at birds in the Doñana marshes from El Rocio, Huelva, on April 12.PACO PUENTES

Brais Martínez leads a horseback riding route along the coast in the parish of Leis de Nemancos (Muxía, A Coruña). While riding through a wooded area of chestnut and pine trees and along the sand of the Área Grande beach, Martínez interprets the environment and explains the behavior of the horses and their relationship with those who ride them. No previous experience is required.Agostiño Iglesias

Aerial view of the hotel zone of Punta Diamante, Acapulco, affected by Hurricane Otis, in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, on October 28.Mónica González Islas

Fredrik Sjöberg, entomologist, writer, literary critic and translator, with an insect hunter at his home in Runmarö, Sweden, on September 26.ÓSCAR CORRAL

Air conditioning equipment at full capacity in a stand at the Seville fair on April 17.PACO PUENTES

Anerni, Tnirt district, Marrakech province, Morocco, September 11. Ahmed Hait-Hamed, who has lost his wife, one of his four sons, his daughter-in-law and two of his four grandchildren, waits for the body of his daughter-in-law to be rescued near his devastated house. He was saved because at the time of the earthquake he went to scare away the wild boars that eat the apples from his orchard every night. Moeh Atitar

Red Hot Chilli Peppers performance, on July 8, at Mad Cool in Madrid.Claudio Álvarez

Rosalía, during her performance at the Primavera Sound Barcelona festival on June 3.Gianluca Battista

Depeche Mode concert, at the Primavera Sound festival in Madrid, on June 9th.Santi Burgos

French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin poses at a hotel in the city of Marrakech, Morocco, April 18. Jaime Villanueva

Actor Benicio del Toro at the Intercontinental Hotel in Madrid on April 21.Samuel Sánchez

Dmytro Lohvynenko, Ukrainian serviceman wounded in the war, pictured on April 15, in a park near the Gomez Ulla Military Hospital in Madrid where he is receiving treatment.Jaime Villanueva

Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, inside the vehicle taking him home to Paris after joining the Académie des Lettres Françaises on February 9.Samuel Aranda

From left, U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau make their way to a media appearance at the end of the North American Summit at the National Palace in Mexico City on January 10.Nayeli Cruz

French President Emmanuel Macron chats with writer Javier Cercas during a meeting at the Eliseo for EL PAÍS on January 16.Luis Sevillano

Report on a family living in a motorhome in San Diego, California (USA). In the picture, Chris Endres and Julienna Endres pose with their son Ayden in San Diego, California, on April 1.Carlos Rosillo

A user uses a Waymo autonomous (driverless) vehicle in downtown San Francisco (California, United States). Google's Waymo uses modified Jaguar vehicles. Carlos Rosillo

A mother holds her child at Trocaire hospital in Doloow, Somalia, where they have gone for treatment for malnutrition, Jan. 24.Álvaro García

A woman and her daughter attempt to cross the Rio Grande at the border between Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras. The group of 250 people are seeking asylum in the United States. Piedras Negras, Mexico, October 12.Mónica González Islas

The lifeless body of a migrant floats in the middle of the Mediterranean after the boat from Tunisia capsized near Lampedusa, Italy, on April 27.Álvaro García

A soccer match at dusk in San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia, on February 1.Chelo Camacho

A group of women whose husbands are linked to the Islamic State, in Hassan Sham camp, Erbil, Iraq, May 8.Gianluca Battista

A young man carries hundreds of bananas on his bike outside a market in Mulindi, Rwanda, June 3.Albert Garcia

Wixarika Indians participate in the XVI Niwetsika Native Corn Fair in the community of El Roble, Nayarit, on March 19.Nayeli Cruz

Medical students demonstrate against pension reform during the March 28 general strike in Nantes, France. Javier Hernández

Funambulist Nathan Paulin runs the 350 meters between the Generali and Telefónica buildings in Barcelona on July 2. Albert Garcia

UIurii (right), 30, helps a colleague drink after being treated for burns at a makeshift hospital a few kilometers from the front line in Ukraine, after his armored vehicle was hit by a Russian missile, July 18.Luis De Vega Hernández

Funeral and burial of paramedic Yana Rykhlitska, 29, who was killed during a Russian attack while performing an evacuation last Friday near Bajmut, Ukraine, March 7. Watching over the body, among others, is Olena, her mother. Luis de Vega

Yuri Chucha, a 52-year-old cancer patient from besieged Bakhmut, with his wife Ana, 48, in the hospital train in which they are being evacuated from the Donetsk region (Ukraine), on February 28. Luis de Vega

Blinded soldier Oleg K. and his wife, Yuliia, recover in the General Military Defense Hospital in Zaragoza, Nov. 21. Rocío Badiola

The wall separating Israel and the occupied West Bank from the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem on November 12.Álvaro García

The image of Ahed Tamimi, a young Palestinian woman imprisoned by the Israeli regime after slapping a soldier, is depicted on the wall of the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, West Bank, on December 10.Jaime Villanueva

Relatives of Hamas hostages arrive in Jerusalem on their march, Nov. 18.Álvaro García

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