PHOTOS: 2022 Photos of the Year -- Arvin Temkar

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PHOTOS: 2022 Photos of the Year -- Arvin Temkar

Aryana Cook, Tyeoncella Grady, and Jayden Haynes get ready for the Clark Atlanta University homecoming parade in Atlanta on Saturday, October 15, 2022. It’s the university’s first full-participation homecoming parade since 2019. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

A person surveys a vehicle accident in Atlanta on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Abortion rights activists rally and march in Atlanta on Saturday, May 7, 2022. A draft Supreme Court opinion was leaked earlier in the week suggesting that Roe v. Wade would be overturned. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

A SWAT team gathers outside a condominium building on 16th and Spring Street in Midtown Atlanta on Monday, August 22, 2022. A woman was arrested at the Atlanta airport a little more than two hours after shots were fired at the building, according to Atlanta police.The woman is suspected of shooting three people. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Ayana Meriweather walks with her son and siblings back to the Forest Cove apartments in Atlanta after the bus dropped the children off from Slater Elementary on Thursday, August 18, 2022. For months, the city and community groups have been trying to relocate the condemned complex’s residents but were unable to do so before the school year started. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Miracle Fletcher poses for a portrait in front of the Trestletree Village apartments in Atlanta on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. She endured not only the horrific conditions of her apartment but also threats of eviction and retribution for demanding repairs and organizing other tenants to do the same. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Brooke Hartman, 16, and her mother Ruth share a tender moment during a portrait in their home in John’s Creek on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Brooke’s time in high school has improved since seeking treatment for generalized anxiety and persistent depressive disorders. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

A volunteer with National Right to Life holds a sign that has been adjusted to say “Roe is Gone” at the National Right to Life Convention at the Airport Marriott Hotel in Atlanta on Friday, June 24, 2022, the day the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Destiny Zirch of Vidalia poses for a portrait at “The Queen’s Ball: A Bridgerton Experience” at Pullman Yards in Atlanta on Friday, July 22, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Fifth grade students from West Clayton Elementary School wear new backpacks and touch the underside of a plane at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta on Wednesday, August 10, 2022. Volunteers from the business community at Hartsfield-Jackson airport filled a Boeing 767 aircraft with school supplies to gift to underserved students. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Travon Walker embraces his mother Lasonia Walker after being picked first by the Jacksonville Jaguars at his NFL draft party at the Omni Hotel in Atlanta on Thursday, April 28, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

A supporter poses for a portrait at Republican congressional hopeful Vernon Jones’ campaign runoff watch party at the Social Goat Tavern in Covington on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Jones, a former state representative and Democrat, is running against Mike Collins in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, former president Barack Obama, and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock campaign at an early voter rally in Atlanta on Oct. 28, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Kelly Smith and Doreneshia Zachery of Norcross show their 2017 Takeoff tattoos outside of State Farm Arena while waiting to attend the rapper’s funeral on Friday, November 11, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Paige Forrester, 18, of Columbia, Alabama gets ready before prom at Shepherd Center in Atlanta on Friday, April 22, 2022. Forrester was admitted on Jan. 13 after a car accident caused a spinal cord injury. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

(L-R) Juliet Pingul spent four years caring for Rekha Shah, 65, who has frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The disease typically affects people in their 40s to 60s. This photo was taken in 2021 and published in 2022. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Michelle Cleveland poses for a portrait at her home in Kennessaw on Monday, August 22, 2022. Her tattoo, featuring semicolons, represents continuation rather than ending. Cleveland lost two sons to suicide in 2016. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Dancers dress up for Día de Muertos in Roswell on Saturday, October 29, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

A person sunbathes in Piedmont Park in Atlanta as horse-mounted police ride by on Thursday, May 5, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

An audience member surveys the quadrangle during Emory’s graduation. Georgia-based entertainment entrepreneur Tyler Perry was the keynote speaker for Emory University’s 2022 spring commencement, the university’s 177th, on Monday, May 9, 2022. 15,000 people were expected to attend. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Fay Selvage, 89, poses for a portrait at her home in Atlanta on Tuesday, September 13, 2022. Selvage periodically impersonated Queen Elizabeth, who died September 8, in and around Atlanta. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Cooling tower units 1 and 2 of Plant Vogtle in Burke County near Waynesboro are seen on Friday, October 14, 2022. Georgia Power announced early Friday morning that engineers at Plant Vogtle have begun loading fuel into the first of two new reactors at the site, a significant step toward generating electricity from the first commercial nuclear units built in the U.S. in three decades. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

A fallen dinosaur statue is seen in St. Marys on Thursday, September 29, 2022 as tropical storm Ian makes its way north from Florida. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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Aryana Cook, Tyeoncella Grady, and Jayden Haynes get ready for the Clark Atlanta University homecoming parade in Atlanta on Saturday, October 15, 2022. It’s the university’s first full-participation homecoming parade since 2019. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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