In Sight: Your 10 favorite In Sight posts of 2019 and the Year in Photos

Your 10 favorite In Sight posts of 2019

A curated view of your world in photographs

(Matt McClain/The Washington Post) A remarkable year in photographs Still photographs have the ability to sear places into our collective memories. Successful visual storytelling not only has the strength to educate, it also has the power to compel us to feel, to think carefully, and even to take action. Light, composition, and gesture are all vital, but to inspire, provoke and teach through seeing is our ultimate goal. For 2019, we selected some of the most memorable images and wove them together into a rich visual narrative illuminating a momentous year. -The Washington Post Photography Team Read more     Your 10 favorite In Sight posts of 2019 (Ingvar Kenne) Perspective Surreal photos from a two-year odyssey experiencing rural Australia's Bachelor and Spinster Balls Swedish photographer Ingvar Kenne examines what began as a rural tradition of providing men and women from far-flung locales the opportunity to meet "the right one." By Kenneth Dickerman and Ingvar Kenne · Read more (Matthew Genitempo/Twin Palms Publishers) Perspective Meet the men living deep in the Ozarks, away from the fray Matthew Genitempo's photographic life took him into the Piney Woods of Texas and led him to the hills of the Ozark range, where he chronicled a remote way of life. By Kenneth Dickerman and Matthew Genitempo · Read more ADVERTISEMENT (Lily Bungay) Perspective What it's like living on a Greek island where people live longer than just about anywhere else Photographer Lily Bungay explores life on Ikaria. By Kenneth Dickerman and Lily Bungay · Read more The Year of the Dogs These dogs helped a world renowned photographer start anew and to love photography again. Read more (Raul Moreno) Perspective Chernobyl broke down over 30 years ago. These photos show the effects aren't over yet. Photographer Raul Moreno revisits areas near the site of one of the biggest nuclear disasters in history. By Raul Moreno · Read more (James Whitlow Delano/Funded by the Pulitzer Center) Perspective Mining for gold in the world's highest permanent human settlement Photographer James Whitlow Delano travelled to the Peruvian Andes to dccument a community centered around the pursuit of gold. By Kenneth Dickerman and James Whitlow Delano · Read more (Beat Schweizer) Perspective What life is like in Russia's adverse and remote far north Photographer Beat Schweizer explores life in isolated communities in far-northern Russia. By Kenneth Dickerman · Read more (Jim Lind) Perspective This photographer wrangles his pet cats to create surreal family vacation photos Photo retoucher Jim Lind's cats wind up in (mock) precarious situations in "Family Vacation." By Troy Witcher and Jim Lind · Read more (Maja Daniels/MACK) Perspective Haunting photographs from a mysterious community in a rural Swedish valley Photographer Maja Daniels explores her connections to a rural Swedish community. By Kenneth Dickerman and Maja Daniels · Read more ADVERTISEMENT Recommended for you Get the Must Reads newsletter Get a curated selection of our best journalism in your inbox every Saturday, plus a peek behind the scenes into how one story came together. Sign Up

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