Siddiqui was only 38 years old, leaving behind a wife and two young children.
We lost Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, who was killed while on assignment in Afghanistan. This was also a year in which many photojournalists were assaulted and even killed when doing their jobs. At the Olympics, we witnessed the fall and rise of American gymnast Simone Biles as she succumbed to grueling pressure and mental block and then won a bronze medal in the balance beam, earning a tie with Shannon Miller for most Olympic medals by an American gymnast. And at this year’s Summer Games, weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz set an Olympic record and won the Philippines’ first-ever gold medal. In July, 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde was crowned champion in this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee, becoming the first African American in the competition to do so. This was also a year of many historic firsts. Over the course of the year, 7 billion vaccine doses have been administered in over 200 countries and territories, offering some hope that we may be slowly pulling away from the the worst days of the pandemic. In the middle of the chaotic day on January 6, we saw US Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman diverting Trump supporters away from the Senate chamber where lawmakers were holed up and making their way to safety. Throughout these historic events, we saw heroism, hope, perseverance and resilience. There is no other American moment like this.” Marcus Yam, the Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent and photographer who was in Kabul during the harrowing days in August, told CNN Digital in an interview: “This is my generation’s Vietnam. We had repeating evidence of climate change, with melting ice sheets in Greenland, sweeping fires in Greece, deadly flooding in China and severe drought in the western United States.Īnd if these were not enough tumultuous developments, we saw chaos and despair in Afghanistan as US troops made their exit, the country’s government collapsed and the Taliban took charge once again. This year we saw a rise in hate crimes against Asians and Asian Americans, with innocent men and women getting physically assaulted, even killed. We saw overwhelmed hospitals around the world, mass cremations in India and mass graves in the Amazon. This historic event also brought in Kamala Harris, the nation’s first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president.Īs the year progressed, the coronavirus pandemic continued to soar, with the global death toll surpassing 5 million people. We then witnessed the end of one US presidency and the beginning of another, with Joe Biden taking the oath of office and Donald Trump leaving ahead of the ceremony.
The year 2021 was extraordinary, even unprecedented, with news unraveling swiftly starting with the violent assault on the US Capitol, bursting into our consciousness on just the sixth day of January.
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