Review of the Year 2024: Top 25 Photography

In 2024, it’s clear that you have been seeking out images that have the power to transport you elsewhere. Taking the top spot this year is our peek into the world of Poor Things with Yorgos Lanthimos’ eerie collection of images going behind the scenes of the film’s surreal universe. Running closely behind was Female Pentimento’s heavenly photographs of overpowering natural beauty that she described as “portals” — an offering to inhabit new worlds. If you weren’t captured by Pentimento’s celestial scenes you were quite likely entertained by Max Siedentopf’s bizarre photographic campaign for department store Parco in which he imagines a world where household appliances seem to have a life of their own.

Away from the bizarre and otherworldly, you were once again touched by people-centred photo stories such as Behind Blue Eyes: the charity photo project that gave Ukrainian children cameras to capture life through their eyes; Bre Furlong and Olga Steinepreis’ photographic explorations of the unseen perils of parenthood; and The Middle East Archive’s community-focused showcase of the region’s passion for football.