By re-photographing her grandparents’ personal slide photographs, Lorena Guillén Vaschetti created a book that considers how the photographs we leave behind communicate about us to future generations, South African photographer Garth Meyer’s large-format photographs of primary forests in Africa and Southeast Asia are a stunning document of disappearing natural beauty.

We talk to photographers who managed to find fresh and thoughtful perspectives on some of the year’s biggest –and most covered- news stories.