Best of the Washington Post, 2004

The Washington Post has selected its best photography for 2004. The choices repudiate claims by some that American media portray a one-sided, cheery view of the world and don't report what war really means. The photos focus primarily on Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and the Israel-Palestine conflicts. Based on these photos one would gather that 2004 was a year of painful suffering, which for too many people, it was.