When national geographic is mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is a beautiful, shocking image. For more than 130 years, from the highest mountains to the deepest oceans, from jungles to deserts, from the most prosperous metropolises to the most remote and desolate areas, following in the footsteps of National Geographic photographers, the world has been seen.
Before you know it, the 2010s are over. National Geographic magazine selected 14 of the more than 21.6 million images photographers have taken over the past decade that resonate with people.
These include the death of the world's last northern white rhino "sultan"; the endangered pangolin and cubs; the young Yemeni girls and their husbands forced into child marriage; a human face that was intact on the operating table and was about to be transplanted into the face of another woman...
Here, hold your breath with the photographer and look slowly.
Photographer: Charlie Hamilton James
In Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, photographers and the National Park Service co-arranged the footage captured by a "trap" camera remotely triggered by motion sensors. It is a clearing dedicated to the use of scavengers to keep animals killed by the road, and an adult male grizzly bear is threatening crows from the side of a bison carcass.
Kathy Moran, National Geographic's photography editor, said, "That's where I like the camera trap the most, you're ready for the stage, but you never know what's going to play out." ”
Photographer: Joel Sartore
Photographer Joel Sartore, who has been photographing endangered wildlife for nearly 15 years, calls the project Photo Ark, and has now taken pictures of tens of thousands of animals. In 2015, at a wildlife sanctuary in Florida, a white-bellied pangolin was shot carrying its cubs past Saltore.
Photographer: John Stanmeyer
In djibouti, the capital of the Republic of Djibouti, in the moonlight, people hold up their mobile phones in the hope of getting a mobile signal from neighboring Somalia.
Photographer: Pete Muller
Photographer Pete Muller has been working in West Africa in 2014 during the rapid spread of the Ebola outbreak. At that time, inside the Sierra Leone treatment centre, a deranged infected patient rushed out of the quarantine area in an attempt to climb the wall. An armed police officer and two clinicians in protective suits subdued the man and sent him back to bed. He died 12 hours later.
Photographer: Ami Vitale
Photographer Ami Vitale first met a northern white rhino called "Sudan" in 2009. At the time, Sudan was one of only nine surviving male white rhinos in the Czech zoo, and the final effort to save the species included airlifting Sudan and three other rhinos to a protected area in Kenya.
In 2019, Vitale learned that the only remaining male, the Northern White Rhino Sultan, was about to die. In O. In the Ol Pejeta reserve, she saw Joseph Wachira, one of the Sultan's protectors, approach the Sultan to give him one last ear massage.
Photographer: Lynsey Addario
London photographer Lynsey Addario has long focused on topics such as maternal mortality, which has been photographed in many countries, and the difficult lives of modern Afghan women. In December 2010, she encountered a dramatic incident on a country road in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province that intertwined the two.
At that time, Adario and her fellow doctors were surprised to see the unusual sight of rural women unaccompanied, learning that one of the women was pregnant and was giving birth, and that their car was broken, and her husband went to try to find another car. The woman's husband had lost a wife in childbirth. Badakhshan and her companions drove the woman to the hospital, and with the help of nurses, the 18-year-old mother gave birth to a baby girl.
Photographer: Stephanie Sinclair
American photographer Stephanie Sinclair's "Too Young to Wed," an internationally acclaimed, has spent years exploring societies around the world where girls are forced to marry with family "honors" or cultural traditions.
This photograph of young Yemeni villagers Ghara, Tahani and their husbands was published in National Geographic magazine in June 2011 and featured in the United Nations anti-child marriage campaign. The United Nations and the United States now define protections for forced early marriage as a fundamental human right.
Photographer: Steve Winter
Photographer Steve Winter heard early on from a National Park Service staffer that a mountain lion had somehow crossed two of america's busiest highways and settled somewhere in Griffith Park in Los Angeles.
Winter installed a discreet motion-sensing camera in a location in the park that could be viewed remotely. More than a year later, the cougar, named "P22," triggered the camera in front of the famous Hollywood sign. "This sparked a campaign to protect Southern California's last cougar and other wildlife," Winter said. Los Angeles celebrates "P22" every year.
Photographer: Wayne Lawrence
In January 2016, photographer Wayne Lawrence documented residents' efforts to find clean water, showing that water in Flint city has contained dangerous levels of lead and other contaminants for years, according to a January 2016 survey report in Flint, Michigan.
At a fire station, Antonio, 13, and his two 12-year-old sisters are carrying a daily supply of temporarily free bottled water, the only safe drinking water that can now be drunk, cooked and bathed for the homeschooled family.
Photographer: Robin Hammond
New Zealand photographer Robin Hammond, born in Kansas City, Missouri, has earned recognition for his photographs of LGBTQ people around the world. He met Avery Jackson during a Mission to Shoot Gender Revolution in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic.
Hammond was filming 9-year-olds in 8 countries. The nine-year-old made a special impression: Avery spent the first four years of her childhood, but with the support of her family living in Kansas City, Missouri, she began living as a transgender girl in 2012.
Photographer: Jimmy Chin
"Captain's Peak" is a very representative vertical rock wall in Yosemite National Park in the United States, about 910 meters high, is one of the world's famous climbing resorts, in June 2017, photographer Jimmy Chin as a member of the National Geographic documentary "Free Solo" film team, photographed his friend American rock climbing master Alex (Alex Honnold) as he climbs with his bare hands at 2,500 feet (762 m) of Captain's Peak.
Photographer: Lynn Johnson
"It makes us question who we are." Photographer Lynn Johnson always remembers the moment when the paramedics and herself huddled in front of an operating table with an entire human face. That living face, cut from the organ donor, has not yet been transplanted to the next recipient.
Photographers Lynn Johnson and Maggie Steber documented the entire "face-changing journey" of the girl Katie, the youngest face transplant patient in the United States, who chose to transplant an entire face after suffering severe facial damage due to a suicide attempt at the age of 18, and the operation lasted 31 hours and was very successful.
Photographer: Evgenia Arbugaeva
Make beautiful shawls with curtains, and make crowns from cartons. Christina Cudi, an eight-year-old girl who returned home from a state boarding school for her summer vacation, dressed herself as a "tundra princess." She was born into a Nenets family that domesticated reindeer in the northernmost part of Siberia, who for hundreds of years carried reindeer on an 800-mile journey each year across the Yamal Peninsula, but are now threatened by a warming climate and the development of natural gas fields advancing into pastoral areas.
In Aurora, Colorado, National Geographic photographer Lynn Johnson and photographer Kurt Mutchler followed volunteer Susan Potter's story for 15 years.
The woman said she wanted to be frozen after death so that her body could be sliced and used to build a research database. Porter volunteered for the University of Colorado's Visual Humanity Project at the age of 72, and she lived to be 87. Johnson and writer Cathy Newman documented Potter's death and how she froze and cut her body into 27,000 pieces.
Editor: Cui Ying