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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]Every day, Bloomberg photographers capture hundreds of images to illustrate the world’s top business and financial news stories. And every year, we ask our team of editors and photographers to weed through hundreds of thousands of images to select the strongest photos<\/a> \u2014 the ones that illustrated the unillustratable, told a story in a single frame and helped Bloomberg and other news outlets around the world to tell the most important stories of 2014.<\/p>\n

And then we asked the team to do the impossible \u2014 pick a favorite.<\/p>\n

Here are the Americas team’s picks for the Best of the Best Photos of 2014: <\/strong>
\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”655″ alignment=”center” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” show_caption=”yes” img_link_target=”_self”][vc_column_text]This photograph of Mary Barra, GM\u2019s incoming CEO, was taken at the 2014 North American International Auto Show just a couple of days before she was to take the reins as the first woman CEO of a major automaker. There seems to be a great deal of calm in her face\u2026almost resignation. Like someone walking voluntarily into a lion\u2019s cage. In a few weeks she would be testifying in front of Congress and the families of people who died from alleged ignition-switch defects in GM-built vehicles, beginning the battle that has taken up her entire tenure so far. This is a photograph of someone who understands clearly that they are about to begin a very difficult journey.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Graham Morrison, Head of Americas Photo Team<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”663″ alignment=”center” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” show_caption=”yes” img_link_target=”_self”][vc_column_text]Lam Yik Fei made this image in Hong Kong, just as the democracy protests really began heating up. Here, Fei caught a fortuitous moment as thousands of protesters stand in the street near Hong Kong\u2019s government offices just as lighting strikes overhead. As many of the protests occurred during the night, the pictures from his assignments began to occupy this other worldy space \u2013 always shrouded in cool, alien blue light in direct contrast to the tensions they pictured. For me, the image is the perfect allegory for the protests that continue to this day.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Scott Eells, Chief Photographer, Americas
\n<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”673″ alignment=”center” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” show_caption=”yes” img_link_target=”_self”][vc_column_text]My favorite image from 2014 would have to be this aerial shot of the Athabasca Oil Sands near Fort McMurray, Alberta, by Ben Nelms. The painterly qualities of the photograph are what I love most about it. The scale of the shot turns something so heavily rooted in the industrial world into an ethereal and delicate piece of art.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Farah Shulman, Photo Editor, Americas<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”739″ alignment=”center” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” show_caption=”yes” img_link_target=”_self”][vc_column_text]I picked this photo of religious pilgrims stopping to water their horses at Jaguari Reservoir in Brazil taken by Paulo Fridman on Nov. 13. I like the composition of the frame with the burnt-out car in the upper left, the men at the water\u2019s edge with the horses in a straight line and the semicricles of parched earth in the foreground where the water has receded. The photo nicely illustrates the urgency of the drought and also speaks to an older way of life that has disappeared from much of the world.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Christian Loeffler, Photo Editor, Americas<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”639″ alignment=”center” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” show_caption=”yes” img_link_target=”_self”][vc_column_text]An extremely hard decision but this is the image I\u2019m most drawn to from our year\u2019s best. Not only due to the sheer beauty and simplicity of the frame, but also the mystery about the worker and the infinite questions it presents. A seemingly infinite field of wheat standing ready for a seemingly endless life of work. I\u2019m very much drawn to graphic photography and this image greatly represents what we showcase best as a team.
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\n\u2014 Kenneth Hughes, Photo Editor, Americas<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”637″ alignment=”center” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” show_caption=”yes” img_link_target=”_self”][vc_column_text]The smoky atmosphere of this frame by Luke Sharrett first draws you into the picture. As you look closer, you begin to realize it\u2019s steam rising from a horse\u2019s body. I love that it\u2019s the steam above the wet mane that\u2019s creating the light. Luke saw this and decided to hone in on it \u2014 not walk away. The image portrays the energy that was just expended during a rigorous morning workout at the Kentucky Derby. I never get sick of looking at it.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Shahrzad Elghanayan, Photo Editor, Americas<\/em><\/p>\n

See the full collection<\/a> of photos from the 2014 Best of the Year collection.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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