By TIME Photo Department November 26, 2024 7:00 AM EST E very year the TIME photo department sits down to curate the strongest images that crossed our path over the previous 12 months. And every year , sitting with the images, we find ourselves mulling the ways this collection feels heavier than the last, how the year produced images unlike what we’ve seen before. But this year something else, a tautness, runs through the collection – the tension of conflict, the anxiety over outcome,