IRAQ. Sinjar Mountains. August 12, 2014. Injured survivors of an Iraqi Air Force helicopter crash in Mount Sinjar lie onboard a rescue helicopter on its way to Iraqi Kurdistan.

© Moises Saman / Magnum Photos

For a second year Peter van Agtmael has curated an image selection based on the Magnum membership’s choice of their favorite images of the year.

«My favorite thing about Magnum is all the diverse sensibilities joined indefinably but somehow coherently together. In these pictures we can see the range of human experience in their loftiest and most depraved forms, with much in between. The great thing about photography is that everything can be beautiful when seen right.»

– Peter van Agtmael December 12, 2014