From Gaza to Ghana: celebrating the agency photographers of 2024

Supporters of presidential candidate John Mahama wave flags from a car during an electoral caravan, 7 December, in Accra, Ghana.

Children jump on a trampoline in Alexandra township, near Johannesburg on 9 March.

A room inside the Tishrin residential palace of Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on 8 December.

People gathering at the Sednaya prison in Damascus on 9 December. The jail was synonymous with the worst atrocities of ousted president Bashar al-Assad.

The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, and his wife, Victoria, arrive at Downing Street in London on 5 July, the day after the general election.

On 1 April, an Israeli soldier patrols at the site of the Nova festival in Reim, southern Israel, where people were killed and kidnapped during the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas gunmen from Gaza.

Palestinians start to return to their homes in Khan Younis, Gaza, on 7 April after Israel’s withdrawal left areas of the city totally destroyed.

Lighting flares fired by the Israeli army at the Netzarim Corridor area in the central part of the Gaza Strip, 1 October.

Palestinians appear out of the rubble covered in dust after an Israeli attack on the Abu Aisha family house in Deir al Balah, Gaza, on 14 June.

Relatives of Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp mourn as the bodies are brought to al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on 9 August.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris greets former first lady Michelle Obama during a campaign rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on 26 October.

Vehicles drive through flooded neighbourhoods on 19 June in Surfside Beach, Texas. Storm Alberto, the first named tropical storm of the hurricane season, was located approximately 305 miles south-southeast of Brownsville, Texas, and formed in the south-western Gulf of Mexico.

Venezuelan migrant carries his niece across a river in Panama, after crossing the Darien Gap from Colombia on their way to the US, 9 November.

Aerial view of people waiting in Ouanaminthe, Haiti, to cross into the Dominican Republic, 17 May.

Friends and family fuss over a quinceañera in preparation for her photo session at Plaza Colon in the Zona Colonial neighbourhood of Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, 15 May.

Simone Biles of the US during the women’s artistic gymnastics individual balance beam finals at Bercy Arena at the Olympics in Paris, 5 August.

Turkish supporters celebrate as they watch the end of a round of 16 matches between Turkey and Austria at the Euro 2024 football tournament being played in Leipzig, Germany, 2 July.

People clean up a mud-covered street after heavy rains in Alfafar, in Valencia, Spain, 1 November.

Izaga Lega doing a handstand, with the help of her father, Antonio Trillo, during San Fermin festival’s Parade of the Giants and Big Heads in Pamplona, Spain, 12 July.

People make bubbles as they gather to mourn victims of a knife attack during a vigil near The Atkinson in Southport, UK, 5 August.

Gendarmerie patrol the beach at dawn on 11 September in Les Dunes d’Oye near Calais, France.

Newly arrived refugees fleeing fighting in Darfur queue to have their documents processed in the shade of a partially finished bridge in Adre, Chad, at the Sudan border 22 April.

A man passes by a torn hoarding depicting Lord Ram in the old quarters of Delhi, India, 21 January.

Supporters of India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, wear masks of his face as they attend an election rally in Meerut, 31 March.

A youth holding a rifle borrowed from a Syrian opposition fighter poses for a picture on the top of a government forces tank that was left on a street in Umayyad Square in Damascus, 11 December.

An Israeli soldier lights candles at the entrance of a tunnel where the military said six Israeli hostages were killed by Hamas militants, 13 September in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, visits the site where former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed, in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood, southern Beirut, 3 December.

Lebanese soldiers and Hezbollah members gather outside a hospital where injured people were being transported after an incident involving the mass detonation of wireless devices in Dahieh, Beirut, 17 September.