The Guardian relies on news photography from a variety of agencies images, and our picture editors view thousands of images each day. Here we showcase some of the work by photographers whove stood out over the course of the year.
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Billows of smoke rise from a deforested section of the Amazon jungle in Porto Velho, Brazil, 24 August.
Ueslei Marcelino, based in Brasilia for Reuters, has covered the Brazilian presidency, demonstrations, cultural traditions, political unrest in Venezuela and the crisis in the Amazon.
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Logs cut from the Amazon rainforest are laid out beside a road near the city of Realidade, Amazonas state, 22 August.
Kevin Frayer is based in Hong Kong and works all over Asia with Getty Images. His work has been used regularly in the Guardian, from China’s 70th anniversary celebrations to features on the honey hunters of Yunnan and life at a Huawei campus.
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Ethnic Lisu honey hunters stand on a rope ladder gathering wild cliff honey from hives near Mangshi, Yunnan province, China.
Paula Bronstein is a photojournalist based in Bangkok. She has covered the election in Sri Lanka, the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan, and a number of stories in Thailand, the Ukraine region and Indian Tibet, for Getty Images.
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Lidiya Bonarenko, 82, hugs her cat, who is a close companion as she lives alone, in Maryanka, Donetsk region.
Guillermo Arias won the Visa d’Or prize at the festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France, for his work focusing on migration in Central America. He is based in Tijuana, Mexico, for Agence France-Presse.
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A girl celebrating turning 15 poses beside the border fence in Playas de Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, 27 September.
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A group of asylum seekers from Central America return to Mexico from the United States, escorted by Mexican migration officers, 30 January.
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Junior Hernandez, from Guatemala, runs next to a section of border fence where a chart has been painted counting migrant deaths, in Tijuana, Baja California.
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A demonstrator takes cover behind a makeshift shield during an anti-government protest in Santiago, Chile, 15 November.
A Peruvian photojournalist based in Rio de Janeiro, working mostly for Reuters, Pilar Olivares has covered ongoing anti-government protests in Santiago, Chile.
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Supporters of the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva celebrate his release from prison at a bar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8 November.
Rodrigo Abd, a staff photographer for the Associated Press, is from Buenos Aires and is currently based in Lima, Peru. He has covered environmental stories across South America as well as the unrest in Santiago and the crisis in Venezuela.
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Children play on top of an abandoned car at the Aguerridos Liberator shanty town in Caracas, Venezuela, 9 May.
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The Elizalzabal and Silva families, who fish for a living, outside a family home on the shore of oil-contaminated Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Venezuela, 3 July.
You can see more of Abd’s work on the fishermen making a living on the shore of Lake Maracaibo in this gallery.
Rebecca Blackwell is based in Mexico City for Associated Press and has covered the situation in Haiti extensively, in addition to Mexican news.
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Members of United Front of Guerrero Community Police, a vigilante group, patrol in Xaltianguis, in Mexico’s Guerrero state, 29 May.
Temilade Adelaja is a documentary photographer and photojournalist based in Lagos, Nigeria, working for Reuters. Her image of a boy rescued from a collapsed building in Lagos was widely used in March.
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Members of the GKB academy, a unicycle club, juggle during a training session in Lagos, Nigeria, 11 October.
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First-time voters Emmanuella Aiyeola, a 19-year-old student, and Azonmayon Moses, 21, a teacher, in Lagos.
Felipe Dana is based in Rio de Janeiro for Associated Press and has covered stories all over the world, from the conflict in Syria to the ongoing Venezuela crisis, unrest in Hong Kong and environmental issues in Greenland and Albania. See his set of Hong Kong protester portraits here.
Nariman El-Mofty is based in Cairo for the Associated Press and has covered migration through Yemen and the world athletics championships in Doha. We ran a gallery in April of her images of Bedouin women working as tour guides in Egypt.
Roman Pilipey is based in Beijing for the European Press Association. We have featured his work many times in 2019: you can see more of his work on the Monlam prayer festival here, and on the trend for lavish wedding photography sessions in China here.
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People pass by a couple posing for a photographer taking pre-wedding pictures on a road in Wuhan, China, 29 April.
Jessica Taylor works in the House of Commons and her images are distributed via agencies.
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A Syrian boy on his bicycle looks at a convoy of US armoured vehicles patrolling fields near the town of Qahtaniyah, at the border with Turkey, 31 October.
Delil Souleiman is based in Syria covering the conflict for Agence France-Presse.
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A woman stands on the side of a road on the outskirts of Tal Tamr, near the Syrian Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain, in north-eastern Hassakeh province, 16 October. The tyre fires had been lit to reduce visibility for Turkish warplanes during their offensive against Syria’s Kurdish forces.
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Women and children leave the village of Baghuz, in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, 14 March.
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Smoke billows after shelling of Islamic State’s last holdout, Baghuz, 3 March. Syrian families fleeing the battle zone between Turkey-led forces and Kurdish fighters in October.
Maja Hitij is a photographer for Getty Images based in Berlin and covered the Women’s World Cup, featuring in this selection from the tournament.