Image Post — Year in Review 2016

Year in Pictures — Memorable Photos

GoldenTwine Informatics takes a look back over the last 12 months for most iconic news and striking photos of 2016. We have compiled the most memorable moments of the year 2016 under various categories like animals, natural disasters, music and cinema, festivals, memorable images, politics, sports, violence and terror, popular travel destinations, celebrities we lost, and tragic war.

This month, we would publish ten images everyday that have either shocked or inspired us. Today we pick ten of the most memorable photographs of the year 2016.

Butterflies Exhibition

Bjorn, aged 6, poses for pictures with Owl butterflies during a photocall at the Natural History Museum in Central London on March 23.
Image Credits: (Reuters)

Water Lily harvesting in Bangladesh

I came across a girl on August 5, who collects water lilies to sell at the market. Choity is nine years old and likes to wash the water lilies. She loves swimming and playing with them.
Image Credits: Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Acute Malnutrition

Saida Ahmad Baghili, 18, who is affected by severe acute malnutrition, sits on a bed at the al-Thawra hospital in the Red Sea port city of Houdieda, Yemen on 24 October 2016.
Image Credits: (Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters)

Maboussou Village

A boy washes his clothes in a river near Maboussou village, in Central African Republic.
Image Credits: William Daniels—Panos

Chilies out to dry

A worker spreads chilies out to dry at a planting base in Xuan’en County, Hubei Province of China, on August 16.
Image Credits: © VCG via Getty Images

A Sinkhole in Japan

On the day of the US election in November, a sinkhole appeared in Japanese city of Fukuoka. Social media users were quick to see the event as an omen, offering competing prophecies attached to the crater.
Image Credits: @ Kyodo/via Reuters

Great Fire of London

A 120-meter long model of the 17th century London skyline is set alight on the River Thames to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London on September 4.
Image Credits: © Neil Hall/Reuters

Sydney, Australia

A visitor takes a photo of the ‘Cathedral of Light’ installations at the Royal Botanic Gardens on May 25, 2016.
Image Credits: © Jason Reed/Reuters

Statue of Liberty

A full moon rises over the Statue of Liberty seen from the Port Liberte neighborhood of Jersey City, N.J.
Image Credits: (AP)