PHOTOS: 2023 Photos of the year -- Arvin Temkar

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PHOTOS: 2023 Photos of the year -- Arvin Temkar

Atlanta Journal-Constitution photographer Arvin Temkar shares some of his most memorable photos of the year.

Fans react while watching a Wimbledon quarterfinal match watch party for Christopher Eubanks hosted by Georgia Tech at Coda Courtyard in Atlanta on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Eubanks, from Westlake High and Georgia Tech, lost a five-set match to Daniil Medvedev. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Christine Cox (center), a parent of a transgender teenager, becomes emotional after speaking to state Sen. Carden Summers, R-Cordele, (back left) outside the Senate at the Capitol in Atlanta on Monday, March 20, 2023. Activists appeared at the Capitol to protest SB 140, a bill sponsored by Summers that would prevent medical professionals from giving transgender children certain hormones or surgical treatment. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Protesters demonstrating against Atlanta’s public training safety center clash with police in Atlanta on Monday, November 13, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Fans wait for Megan Thee Stallion at the ONE Musicfest in Atlanta on Saturday, October 28, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Protesters demonstrating against Atlanta’s public training safety center flee after police deploy tear gas in Atlanta on Monday, November 13, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Activists in support of Palestine gather in Piedmont Park in Atlanta on Sunday, October 22, 2023, in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Protesters against Atlanta’s planned public safety training center gather at Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Monday, August 14, 2023, as Fulton prosecutors present a their election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others to a grand jury. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

A Trump critic and Trump supporter argue near the Rice Street entrance of the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on Thursday, August 24, 2023, the day Donald Trump would surrender at the facility following his indictment with 18 others. He would be there less for an hour for his booking. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Duane Schwingle, dressed as Uncle Sam, is seen near the Rice Street entrance of the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on Thursday, August 24, 2023, when he and others awaited former President Donald Trump's surrender in the county's election interference case. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Robin Donaldson mourns his friend Christine King Farris, Martin Luther King Jr.’s sister, at the rotunda of the Capitol in Atlanta on Friday, July 14, 2023. Donaldson and Farris attended Ebenezer Baptist Church together. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at the Georgia GOP convention in Columbus on Friday, June 9, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

An attendee stands in a patch of light at the Georgia GOP convention in Columbus on Friday, June 9, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Officers stand in an Old Prison Farm building during an Atlanta Police Department and Atlanta Fire Rescue media tour of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center Site in Atlanta on Friday, May 26, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Delta pilot Theresa Livingston laughs with World War II veteran Jake Larson at the Hartsfield-Jackson international terminal in Atlanta on Wednesday, May 31, 2023. More than 40 World War II veterans boarded a Delta charter, flown by Livingston, to Normandy for the 79th anniversary of D-Day. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

A police officer watches protesters chant at Atlanta City Hall ahead of the final vote to approve legislation to fund the public safety training center on Monday, June 5, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Angela Cooper embraces Jamese Nathan, who works at the Northside Hospital Midtown medical office building where five people were shot on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. One person died. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Taylor Swift performs at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Friday, April 28, 2023. She was the first performer to sell out three consecutive nights at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Rachel Cowan of Douglasville poses for a portrait outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta before the Taylor Swift show on Friday, April 28, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Jennifer Bowie and Aaron Baker (center) become emotional while watching discussion of SB 140 on a TV screen in the Capitol before it gets final approval at the Senate in Atlanta on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. SB 140 would prevent medical professionals from giving transgender children certain hormones or surgical treatment. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

State Rep. Brent Cox, R-Dawsonville, speaks on the phone outside the House of Representatives in Atlanta on Sine Die - the final day of the legislative session - Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

State Sen. Matt Brass, R-Newnan, speaks to press in the Capitol after the legislative session in Atlanta on Sine Die, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

State Rep. Debra Bazemore, (left) D-South Fulton, embraces Rep. Karla Drenner, D-Avondale Estates, who was the first openly gay member of the Georgia Legislature, after Drenner spoke against SB 140 at the House of Representatives on Thursday, March 16, 2023. SB 140 limits treatment for transgender youth. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

State Rep. Doug Stoner, D-Smyrna, walks down a hallway of the Capitol in Atlanta on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Dare, 16, of Dacula poses for a portrait on Friday, March 10, 2023. The youth, who uses “they” as their pronoun, said they were about 10 when they started to think they may be nonbinary. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Plains resident Michael Dominick paints the Smiling Peanut in Plains on Sunday, February 19, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Fiona Paez, sister-in-law of Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, holds of a photo of Teran at a press conference in Decatur on Monday, February 6, 2023. Teran was killed near the site of Atlanta’s planned public safety training center in a confrontation between police and protesters. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Sen. Chuck Payne speaks to a tour group at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Friday, January 20, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Gov. Brian Kemp claps during his inauguration ceremony at Georgia State Convocation Center in Atlanta on Thursday, January 12, 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Anti-abortion activists hold the annual March for Life rally in Atlanta on Friday, January 20, 2023, the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Moments -- a shared laugh, quiet grief, emotional frustration, a physical clash -- Arvin Temkar captured these and other moments during 2023 while covering the legislature, news and features in metro Atlanta. Temkar joined the visual team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in April 2022. The Boston College and Columbia University graduate likes to say he started his newspaper career at 12, delivering papers for the Stars and Stripes. He grew up on a U.S. Army base in Japan. Temkar’s storytelling evolved from being a reporter to a photojournalist. (Photo of Arvin by Jason Getz / Jason.Getz@ajc.com)

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Fans react while watching a Wimbledon quarterfinal match watch party for Christopher Eubanks hosted by Georgia Tech at Coda Courtyard in Atlanta on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Eubanks, from Westlake High and Georgia Tech, lost a five-set match to Daniil Medvedev. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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