Several alumni photographers and VII Community members were featured in TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Photographs of 2025.
Congratulations to Sharafat Ali, Daniel Buuma, Alex Kent, Clarens Siffroy, and Jim Vondruska, whose powerful images made this prestigious list and remind us why human stories matter now more than ever.
As TIME notes, “almost any photograph is improved by having people in it—a lesson TIME’s Top 100 Photographs of 2025 underscores in images that capture not only a year, but also the faint but discernible shadow cast by a less human future.”
See TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Photographs of 2025 here.
Stay tuned for more inspiring photography from our global alumni network throughout 2026. Our core programs remain tuition-free and are open to photographers from the Majority World. If you’d like to support our mission, you can find more information here.
A woman demands that Indian security forces release the body of her brother, Muhammad Shafi Parry, who was killed in an explosion at a police station in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir, on Nov. 15. Sharafat Ali/Reuters.
A boy floats with a water jug while filling it up amid a shortage of drinking water as M23 rebels retained control of the city in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo on Feb. 1. Daniel Buuma/Getty Images.
Cars are submerged in mud following Hurricane Melissa in Petit-Goave, southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 30. Clarens Siffroy/AFP/Getty Images.
A search and rescue worker looks through debris for any survivors or remains of people swept up in the flash flooding in Hunt, Texas, on July 6. Jim Vondruska/Getty Images.