• A man clings to the top of a vehicle before being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard from the flooded streets of New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in Louisiana on September 4, 2005. Robert Galbraith / Reuters
    A man clings to the top of a vehicle before being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard from the flooded streets of New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in Louisiana on September 4, 2005. Robert Galbraith / Reuters
  • A picture of North Korea’s founder Kim Il-sung decorates a building in the capital Pyongyang early on October 5, 2011. Damir Sagolj / Reuters
    A picture of North Korea’s founder Kim Il-sung decorates a building in the capital Pyongyang early on October 5, 2011. Damir Sagolj / Reuters
  • A man stands in front of a convoy of tanks in the Avenue of Eternal Peace in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989. Arthur Tsang / Reuters
    A man stands in front of a convoy of tanks in the Avenue of Eternal Peace in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989. Arthur Tsang / Reuters
  • Flood victims try to grab onto the side bars of a hovering army helicopter which arrived to distribute food supplies in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan’s Punjab province on August 7, 2010. Adrees Latif / Reuters
    Flood victims try to grab onto the side bars of a hovering army helicopter which arrived to distribute food supplies in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan’s Punjab province on August 7, 2010. Adrees Latif / Reuters
  • U.S. Marine Corp Assaultman Kirk Dalrymple watches as a statue of Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad on April 9, 2003. Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
    U.S. Marine Corp Assaultman Kirk Dalrymple watches as a statue of Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad on April 9, 2003. Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
  • A would-be immigrant crawls on the beach after his arrival on a makeshift boat on the Gran Tarajal beach in Spain’s Canary Island of Fuerteventura, on May 5, 2006. Juan Medina / Reuters
    A would-be immigrant crawls on the beach after his arrival on a makeshift boat on the Gran Tarajal beach in Spain’s Canary Island of Fuerteventura, on May 5, 2006. Juan Medina / Reuters
  • Nelson Mandela, accompanied by his wife Winnie, walks out of the Victor Verster prison near Cape Town after spending 27 years in apartheid jails, on February 11, 1990. Ulli Michel / Reuters
    Nelson Mandela, accompanied by his wife Winnie, walks out of the Victor Verster prison near Cape Town after spending 27 years in apartheid jails, on February 11, 1990. Ulli Michel / Reuters
  • A demonstrator pounds away at the Berlin Wall as East Berlin border guards look on from above the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on November 11, 1989. David Brauchli / Reuters
    A demonstrator pounds away at the Berlin Wall as East Berlin border guards look on from above the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on November 11, 1989. David Brauchli / Reuters
  • A Haitian suspected of being a multiple assassin for exiled president Jean Bertrand Aristide’s Lavalas party is detained in Petit Goave, on March 3, 2004. Daniel Aguilar / Reuters
    A Haitian suspected of being a multiple assassin for exiled president Jean Bertrand Aristide’s Lavalas party is detained in Petit Goave, on March 3, 2004. Daniel Aguilar / Reuters
  • The fingers of malnourished one-year-old Alassa Galisou are pressed against the lips of his mother Fatou Ousseini at an emergency feeding clinic in the town of Tahoua in northwestern Niger, on August 1, 2005. Finbarr O’Reilly / Reuters
    The fingers of malnourished one-year-old Alassa Galisou are pressed against the lips of his mother Fatou Ousseini at an emergency feeding clinic in the town of Tahoua in northwestern Niger, on August 1, 2005. Finbarr O’Reilly / Reuters
  • A Turkish riot policeman uses tear gas as people protest against the destruction of trees in a park brought about by a pedestrian project, in Taksim Square in central Istanbul on May 28, 2013. Osman Orsal / Reuters
    A Turkish riot policeman uses tear gas as people protest against the destruction of trees in a park brought about by a pedestrian project, in Taksim Square in central Istanbul on May 28, 2013. Osman Orsal / Reuters
  • A Russian police officer carries a released baby from a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, on September 2, 2004. Viktor Korotayev / Reuters
    A Russian police officer carries a released baby from a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, on September 2, 2004. Viktor Korotayev / Reuters
  • An Indian woman mourns the death of her relative who was killed in the tsunami in Cuddalore, some 180 km (112 miles) south of the southern Indian city of Madras on December 28, 2004. Arko Datta / Reuters
    An Indian woman mourns the death of her relative who was killed in the tsunami in Cuddalore, some 180 km (112 miles) south of the southern Indian city of Madras on December 28, 2004. Arko Datta / Reuters

Reuters: 30 years of pictures

Robert Mickelson

February 17, 2015

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The images of Reuters photographers is presented here in a retrospective on the 30th anniversary of the service’s launch. Reuters photographers have captured dramatic images illustrating the human tragedy of natural disaster and war as well as the fallout of economic events across the continents. They have brought their lenses to bear on sport, culture and show business as well as world political and economic leaders - creating iconic images recognised around the world.

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