50 stunning moments captured by the award-winning Reuters photography team in 2017 Part 4

By Sarah Jacobs From Business Insider

This year, 600 award-winning Reuters photojournalists worked across the world to document both major historic moments and the human stories that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.

The team won the Pulitzer Prize in the Breaking News Photography category in 2016, and in 2017, their efforts have only continued.

Ahead, take a look at 50 of the most amazing photos captured by Reuters in 2017.

Editor’s note: Many of the images in this slideshow depict graphic violence and injury, and many are upsetting. All captions are by Reuters.

Pigs are herded off a platform into water by breeders during a daily exercise at a pig farm in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China, on August 14, 2017.
China Stringer Network/Reuters

Eagle Creek wildfire burns as golfers play at the Beacon Rock Golf Course in North Bonneville, Washington, on September 4, 2017.
Kirsti McCluer/Reuters

Ammar Hammasho, from Syria, who lives in Cyprus, kisses his children who arrived at the refugee camp in Kokkinotrimithia outside Nicosia, Cyprus, on September 10, 2017.
Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters

Members of the cavalry rehearse at the beach of Scheveningen on the eve of a parade in The Hague, before the king delivers his speech from the throne to outline the main features of the government’s policy for the coming parliamentary session, in Scheveningen, Netherlands, on September 18, 2017.
United Photos/Reuters

Justina Escamilla, 88, poses for a photo as she holds her wedding dress inside her destroyed house after an earthquake in San Juan Pilcaya, at the epicenter zone, Mexico, on September 25, 2017.
Edgard Garrido/Reuters

Residents and cars make their way around and under obstacles blocking a main road nearly a week after Hurricane Maria raked the island, in Frederiksted, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, on September 26, 2017.
Jonathan Drake/Reuters

An aerial view of properties destroyed by the Tubbs Fire is seen in Santa Rosa, California, on October 11, 2017.
Stephen Lam/Reuters

Wildfires burn along the Twelve Apostles area of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, on October 13, 2017.
Mike Hutchings/Reuters

Roberto Morales Santos, 70, looks out after posing for a portrait in his home, damaged by Hurricane Maria, in the municipality of Barranquitas outside San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 11, 2017.
Shannon Stapleton /Reuters

Myeshia Johnson, wife of U.S. Army Sergeant La David Johnson, who was among four special forces soldiers killed in Niger, kisses his coffin at a graveside service in Hollywood, Florida, on October 21, 2017.
Joe Skipper/Reuters

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