Photojournalism of the Year 2014

To say the least, 2014 was subject for an abundance of brutal pictures. The rise of the auto-documentary impulse, the prevalence of tools that make anyone anywhere around the world an amateur photographer, has nearly overwhelmed our visual ecosystem (our social networks) with unverified images of blood and gore. Thus, more important than ever before is a focus on the work of far-flung professional photographers filing images on trusted news wires