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2015 in pictures: SCMP photographers select the best of a big year

Disaster, hope, destruction, celebration and humanity in its raw state: the photographers of the South China Morning Post witnessed it all through their lenses this year, and have selected their favourite images to share.

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Evangeline Lam

The work of a newspaper photographer is often tough, dirty, exhausting and seemingly never-ending: but at the end of the year it’s time to look back on the images captured from around Hong Kong and China, and marvel both at the events that transpired and the skill of those who captured the images.

Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor visits the Junior Police Call (JPC) fight crime summer camp at Wu Kwai Sha Youth Village in Ma On Shan. Photo: Edward Wong
Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor visits the Junior Police Call (JPC) fight crime summer camp at Wu Kwai Sha Youth Village in Ma On Shan. Photo: Edward Wong
Rescuers in protection suits clean the wreckage left on board the capsized Dongfangzhixing, or Eastern Star, in Yangtze River on June. Photo: Simon Song
Rescuers in protection suits clean the wreckage left on board the capsized Dongfangzhixing, or Eastern Star, in Yangtze River on June. Photo: Simon Song
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