POTD: Most moving image of 2014 from Getty Images

Getty Images has unveiled its 10 most moving images of 2014, as voted by the global public.

The most moving photo of 2014 was taken by award-winning Getty Images photographer John Moore. In the photo, a Doctors Without Borders (MSF), health worker in protective clothing carries a child suspected of having Ebola in the MSF treatment center on October 5, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. The girl and her mother, showing symptoms of the deadly disease, were awaiting test results for the virus. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 3,400 people in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization.

The most moving photo of 2014 was taken by award-winning Getty Images photographer John Moore. In the photo, a Doctors Without Borders (MSF), health worker in protective clothing carries a child suspected of having Ebola in the MSF treatment center on October 5, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. The girl and her mother, showing symptoms of the deadly disease, were awaiting test results for the virus. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 3,400 people in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization.

Powerful imagery of the Ebola epidemic in Liberia by John Moore was top of mind globally with his photos voted #1, #2 and #7 respectively.

A total of 294,219 votes were cast from 164 countries globally on photos included in Getty Images’ Year in Focus, an expert curation of the defining images and videos that encapsulate 2014’s most important moments in the world of news, sport, entertainment and archive anniversaries and obituaries.

Ebola is also the subject of the photo voted #10, taken by Reportage by Getty Images photographer Daniel Berehulak.


Pierre Crom’s photo of the Air Malaysia passenger jet crash in Eastern Ukraine was voted #3, followed by Gokhan Sahin’s photo of Syrian Kurds battling IS to retain control of Kobani and Scott Olson’s photo of civil unrest in Ferguson, voted #4 and #5 respectively.

Alexander Koerner’s extraordinary photo of Kiev protests was voted #6, while poignant images from the Getty Images archive were voted #8 and #9; Harry Borden’s portrait of Robin Williams and award-winning photographer Tom Stoddart’s photo of the Asian tsunami of 2004.

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