A selection of the great images we received in 2024 

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Over the course of a year we receive, select and process many thousands of images across a wide variety of subjects. We are privileged to work with such a fantastic range of photographers, agencies and archives. Check out our slideshows below of just some of the interesting, striking and topical images, that we received in 2024. 

Topical and News Related

  • Ballot drop box, Lane County, Oregon. Credit: Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Students Hold Anti-Quota Protest. Credit: Rafayat Khan/Majority World/Universal Images Group
  • Charlotte North Carolina,South Tryon Street,self-driving mobile robot offering free sample energy bar,pet dog leash reacting,man men male,adult,resident,pedestrians,walking street scene,. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group
  • Protests as Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina resigns. Credit: Saiful Islam/Majority World/Universal Images Group
  • Gay Pride March, LGBTQ Parade. Credit: Ann Broder/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Vice President Kamala Harris at Presidential Rally at University of Nevada, Las Vegas Campus, featuring Gov. Tim Walz. Credit: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group
  • Merida, Mexico, homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group
  • Cozumel Mexico,Cruise Port Pier,Norwegian Joy Cruise Line ship,7-day Caribbean Sea itinerary,arriving Carnival Horizon docked,passengers disembarking,men women coouples families, visitors visiting travel traveling tour tourist tourism,landmark landmarks culture cultural,vacation group people person scene in a photo making taking,using from having other up on,Mexican Central America American,. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group
  • Miami Beach Florida,Collins Avenue,The Vacation Supply Co,sign promotion,inflation relief sale,economy,souvenir beachwear clothing store, visitors visiting travel traveling tour tourist tourism,landmark landmarks culture cultural,vacation group people person scene in a photo making taking,using from having other up on USA US United States,America North American Americans,. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group
  • Google office building, exterior logo detail, Soho, New York City, New York, USA. Credit: Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group
  • Events ticket shop, Piccadilly Circus, London, UK. Credit: Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Egg cartons stacked and on display in refrigerated aisle of KeyFoods grocery store, Queens, New York. Credit: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Large group of NYPD gathered to receive assignments prior to dispersing for patrol around Times Square, New York City, on December 31st, New Year’s Eve, 2023. Credit: Deb Cohn-Orbach/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Maracaibo, July 30, 2024, Venezuelans attend a demonstration called by Maria Corina Machado against the results of the presidential election. Credit: Jose Bula Urrutia/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Little Canada, Minnesota. Political voting signs of Harris and Trump. Credit: Michael Siluk / Universal Images Group
  • The new Apple iPhone 16 at the central Apple store, Hong Kong, China. Credit: Bob Henry/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Ozempic, Victoza and Wegovy, injectable prescription weight loss medicines. Credit: Michael Siluk / Universal Images Group
  • GoLocker package delivery storage, New York City. Credit: Deb Cohn-Orbach/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Students Hold Anti-Quota Protest. Credit: Rafayat Khan/Majority World/Universal Images Group
  • Electrical Vehicle Charger, Hong Kong, China. Credit: Bob Henry/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Messy Gift Card display, Have Fun, Duane Reade, Queens, New York. Credit: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Flash Flood 2024 in Bangladesh. Credit: Rafayat Khan/Majority World/Universal Images Group
  • Students Hold Anti-Quota Protest. Credit: Rafayat Khan/Majority World/Universal Images Group
  • Waymo Car in San Francisco, CA. Robotaxi Waymo is working thanks to an autonomous driving technology. Credit: FL/UCG/Universal Images Group

History and Art

  • Food Stalls And Bakeries In Rue De Stamboul. Credit: Bildagentur-online/Universal Images Group
  • Protesters holding signs with slogans including “”Khrushchev not welcome here”” and “”Peaceful coexistence is suicide”” during Nikita Khrushchev’s U.S. visit, New York City, New York, USA, Thomas J. O’Halloran, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, October 10, 1959. Credit: Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group
  • American inventor Charles S.L. Baker (right), standing behind heating radiator, system, Martin W. Bode, 1906. Credit: Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group
  • U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon with his wife Pat Nixon walk by band and American flags at airport during campaign trip, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, Thomas J. O’Halloran, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, September 14, 1960. Credit: Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group
  • English rock and roll band The Beatles on stage during performance, Washington Coliseum, Washington, D.C., USA, Marion S. Trikosko, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, February 11, 1964. Credit: Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group
  • Dr. Jakob Ackeret, ETH professor for aerodynamics. Zurich ca. 1950. Credit: RDB/Dukas/Universal Images Group
  • Man pushing hot dog cart across street, New York City, New York, USA, Angelo Rizzuto, Anthony Angel Collection, September 1957. Credit: Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group
  • Jean A.D. Ingres 1780 1867, ‘The Odyssey’ 1827-1850, 61.3 x 55 cm oil on canvas. Credit: Molteni Motta/Universal Images Group
  • Single building standing within vacant lot, Lever House (right) and Racquet and Tennis Club (left) in background, Lexington Avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets, New York City, New York, USA, Angelo Rizzuto, Anthony Angel Collection. Credit: Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group
  • Instrument of mathematical precision for designing objects in perspective. Credit: PHAS/Universal Images Group
  • Greyhound Bus Terminal, 33rd and 34th Streets between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, Pennsylvania Station in background, New York City, New York, USA, Berenice Abbott, Federal Art Project, “”Changing New York””, July 1936. Credit: Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group

Our Human World

  • Ivanpah Solar Plant facilty outside Las Vegas off Interstate 15 from air. Credit: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group
  • A man wearing a blue kanzu and white embroidered kofia smiles as he sits on a wooden dhow fishing boat at Kivukoni Fish Market in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Credit: Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Offshore oil platform with Santa Cruz Island in the background, Santa Barbara Channel, California. Credit: Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Cambodia, Phnom Penh, monks. Credit: Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • A fisherman punts his traditional wooden dhow outrigger sailing boats on Jambiani beach, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Credit: Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Tea seller, Bou Jaafar, Sousse, Tunisia. Credit: Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Illuminated Torch Tower (Aspire Tower) by night, Doha, Qatar. Credit: Petr Svarc/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Housing development near Charles Town, West Virginia. Credit: Robert Knopes/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • The new Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao bridge and tunnel system which is the longest sea-crossing in the world, Hong Kong, China. Credit: Bob Henry/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • A female business traveller arrives with her luggage at North Terminal, Gatwick Airport, London, UK. Credit: Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Myanmar, Yangon, Shwedagon Paya, monk. Credit: Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Wyoming oil refinery with line of oil tanker rail cars in front. Credit: Don and Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Bugiada and Mouriscada de Sobrado. Credit: VW Pics/Universal Images Group
  • Vietnam, Saigon, Ho Chi Minh ville, rainy day. Credit: Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • View of a street in downtown Nairobi, February 27, 2024. Credit: Desirey Minkoh/Afrikimages/Universal Images group
  • The newly opened Central and Western waterfront promenade, Hong Kong, China. Credit: Bob Henry/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Geisha. Kyoto. Japan. Credit: Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • View of a street sign bearing the names of streets in downtown Nairobi, February 27, 2024. Credit: Desirey Minkoh/Afrikimages/Universal Images group
  • Myanmar, Bagan, Old paya. Credit: Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Robot by Badger Technologies with googlie eyes in produce aisle of Stop & Shop in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Credit: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Reflection of woman with bicyle in a motorbike mirror. Credit: Godong/Universal Images Group
  • Dodgem Carts in a deserted funfair at Rye Farm Fields by the Thames at Abingdon. Credit: Planet One Images/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Passengers at the railway station waiting for the interstate train which got cancelled during Cyclone Remal. Credit: Abhisek Saha/Majority World/Universal Images Group
  • The YPF Luz dual-cycle thermal power electricity generating plant at El Bracho, near San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Universal Images Group
  • Three gauchos in their traditional outfits, one with the red Salte√±o poncho, in Cachi, Argentina. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Universal Images Group
  • Manifesto Market in Prague. Credit: Nano Calvo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group
  • Hermanos Motta PZA Farm. Rice Mill in Panama. Credit: Edwin Remsberg/VW Pics/Universal Images Group
  • Terraced Volcanic Farmland Near Bollullo, North Coast of Tenerife. Credit: Felipe Rodriguez/VW Pics/Universal Images Group
  • Devotees Enter Capilla de los Marineros, Seville. Credit: Felipe Rodriguez/VW Pics/Universal Images Group
  • Gigantes y Cabezos Celebrations in Fuenteheridos, Huelva, Andalucia. Credit: Felipe Rodriguez/VW Pics/Universal Images Group
  • The parapet walls are lined with tropical plants in this shopping mall in Sumiyoshi. Credit: Saiful Islam/ Majority World/Universal Images Group
  • DJI Store in Prague. Credit: Nano Calvo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group
  • Morocco. Casablanca. View Fron The Window. Credit: Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • A plug and USB plugged into an electricity socket. France. Credit: Godong/Universal Images Group
  • Charcuterie and cheese dish. France. Credit: Godong/Universal Images Group
  • Italy, Milan, Malpensa Airport Terminal 2, Silvio Berlusconi Airport. Credit: Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group

The Natural World Around Us

  • Strange concentric ice rings form around trees by the Thames as flooded land then freezes 2. Credit: Planet One Images/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Statues carved from salt & vendors stalls made of salt blocks at the Salinas Grandes salt flats on the altiplano in Argentina. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Universal Images Group
  • Line of sunshades along the beach with dark storm clouds offshore, Dhermi, Albania, Europe. Credit: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group
  • The UNESCO ancient city of Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka – monkey on Kiri Vehera stupa walls Hanuman Langur (Semnopithecus entellus). Credit: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group
  • Flooded playa. Alvord Desert, Oregon Oregon. Credit: Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Restoration sign, Glacier National Park, Montana. Credit: Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Park visitors on observation boardwalk get close up view of the Grand Prismatic Spring in the Midway Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Credit: Ron Buskirk/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Visitors walk amoung the driftwood, tide pools and seastacks at Ruby Beach in the Olympic National Park near Forks, Washington. Credit: Ron Buskirk/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Color satellite image of San Julian settlements and deforestation in Bolivia in 1984 and 2022. Credit: Planet Observer/Universal Images Group
  • Rock formations in the Fire Canyon area at Valley of Fire State Park near Overton, Nevada. Credit: Ron Buskirk/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Exposed root, hornbeam at the Haithabu Viking Museum, Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Credit: Bildagentur-online/Schoening/Universal Images Group
  • Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) swimming near Goudier Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctica. Credit: Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group
  • Philippines. Banaue rice fields. Credit: Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Caution sign, Oregon coast. Credit: Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group
  • Playa Del Bollullo Beachgoers Enjoying Black Sand and Ocean Waves. Credit: Felipe Rodriguez/VW Pics/Universal Images Group

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