WOMEN 2021
Harriet Muhiza is a nurse and single mother of four girls. In her spare time she campaigns for improved standards of council housing for single parent families. Photo: Liz Hingley, 15 February 2018
Lady Gaga concentrates on working with the photographer after dismissing her entourage and PR teams from the set.
Photo: Teri Pengilley, 05 June 2017
Skye Mitchell was bullied about her looks as a teenager before winning a beauty contest and then going on to launch a campaign to help other victims. Photo: Milton Haworth, 26 January 2015
An ecstatic Katie McCabe of Arsenal jumps on top of her team mates as part of the goal celebrations after Vivianne Miedema scored their second goal in their away WSL game against Tottenham Hotspur. Photo: Elli Birch, 17 November 2019
Gemma Tattersall of Great Britain riding Artic Soul celebrates the end of the cross country trials on Day 5 of the World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina. Photo: Elli Birch/Sportingpictures, 15 September 2018
Medical staff at a Nightingale Hospital at ExCel London take part in a national "clap for carers" to show thanks for the work of Britain's NHS workers and other frontline medical staff around the country as they battle with the novel coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Tolga Akmen, 30 April 2020
An 89 year old Haenyo (sea woman) holds her breath and searches for marine snails in Jeju, Korea. Photo: David White, 14 February 2005
A member of the Red Rebel Brigade at an Extinction Rebellion demonstration in Leeds. Photo: Scott Merrylees, 29 August 2020
England players celebrate beating Scotland to complete their win in the Six Nations tournament at Twickenham Stadium in London. Photo: Eddie Keogh, 16 March 2019
Erin Cuthbert of Chelsea FC Women and Scotland photographed at the club’s training ground in Surrey. Photo: Jeff Moore, 23 May 2018
A bus passenger waits for the vehicle she is travelling on to board a ferry in southern Bangladesh.Photo: David White, 16 September 2009
The honour guard of crew members of Britain's newest aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales prepare to go on parade for the ship's commissioning ceremony inside the giant hangar of the ship moored in Portsmouth. Photo: Richard Pohle/The Times, 10 December 2019
Sharon Redrobe, Twycross Zoo CEO and Ape Action Africa Trustee conducts a health check on silverback gorilla Bo Bo at the Mefou Primate Sanctuary in Cameroon. Photo: Lucy Ray, 01 March 2013
A group of happy revellers pose for a photograph at the end of a wet day at the Notting Hill Carnival. Photo: Mark Thomas, 26 August 2018
Christine Clark celebrates they fifth birthday with her IVF quadruplets Alexis, Elisha,Caroline and Darcy at their home in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Photo: Bruce Adams/Daily Mail, 07 April 2018
An elderly lady sits in a cafe engrossed in her puzzle magazines oblivious to the length of her cigarette ash. Ham, Surrey. Photo: David Levenson, 01 June 2000
A member of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp cuts the fence around the nuclear base as their invasion of the site begins. Photo: David Hoffman, 29 October 1983
HM Queen Elizabeth II exits The Palace of Westminster by The Sovereign"s Entrance after the State Opening of Parliament in London. Photo: Joanne Davidson, 19th December 2019
Shiori Itō, journalist and documentary film maker, whose rape accusations against a prominent TV journalist turned her into a symbol of Japan's fledgling #MeToo movement. Photo: Geoff Pugh/The Telegraph, 26 June 2018
Long distance swimmer Sarah Thomas, 37, arrives at St Margaret’s Beach near Dover to become the first person to swim the English Channel four times without stopping. Photo: Tom Nicholson/The Times, 17 September 2019
Rugby player Zainab Alema at Rosslyn Park FC photographed with her children Karamat 4, Muhsin 2 and Khadjah 7 months. Photo: Geoff Pugh/The Telegraph, 21 June 2020
Danielle Sidebottom, the Women’s Gawthorpe World Coal Carrying Champion on the final stretch of the uphill road race by Gawthorpe Primary School where she works as a teacher. Photo: Fabio De Paola, 07 August 2020
Idris opens his eyes for the first time and Emily has a first look as her son is lifted just born underwater at the Birth Centre in St Mary's Hospital, London. Photo: Andre Camara, 10 February 2016
A Black Lives Matter protester during a rally in Parliament Square against the murders of innocent black people in the US and the UK. Photo: Elliott Franks, 11 July 2020
Metropolitan Police officers on Whitehall watch as a woman holds a placard supporting the group Black Lives Matter who were demonstrating over the death of American George Floyd whilst being arrested by US police officer Derek Chauvin. Photo: Ray Tang, 31 May 2020
Seven year old Yemeni refugee Farah Abdallah who still has a bullet lodged in her head sits in hospital in Djibouti after being shot in the head by a sniper in Aden before fleeing with her mother with other refugees. Photo: Carl de Souza/AFP, 05 May 2015
Samantha "Sam" Briggs is an English CrossFit athlete best known for winning the CrossFit Games in 2013. Photo: Paul Cooper, 15 August 2019
As part of the celebrations for 100 years of the Irn Bru Carnival Margaret Mitchell who is also celebrating her 100th year takes a private tour of this years carnival. Photo: Jeff Holmes, 10 January 2020
Ruth Sidi Karisa breast feeds her six-month-old son Onesmus at a vocational school in Marafa, Kenya. She gave birth when she was 17 after a relationship with a shop assistant who slipped her treats in exchange for sex before losing interest in her and her baby when she became a mother. Photo: Simon Townsley, 21 November 2019
An open water swimmer resurfaces during her socially-distanced dawn swim after breaking the ice in freezing conditions near Scunthorpe. Photo: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP, 09 January 2021
Mariko Muranaka of Starset performs live on stage at Download Festival at Donnington Park. Photo: Katja Ogrin, 17 June 2019
In a remote region in eastern Chad close to the Libyan border, a young girl fights her disability with education. Fifteen year old Fadoul dreams of training to become a teacher. Photo: Tim Bishop, 24 October 2012
Eight year old Dalal and her family have moved back to their devastated home in the Old City of west Mosul in Iraq. Photo: Philip Coburn/Daily Mirror, 04 July 2018
NHS workers at Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool participate in a national "clap for carers" to show thanks for the work of Britain's NHS and other frontline medical staff around the country as they battle with the novel coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Paul Ellis/AFP, 28 May 2020
Twenty year old fighter Helen Judi, a member of the all-female Kurdish Syrian YPJ, photographed with her medium calibre machine gun on the outskirts of Al-Hasakah, Northern Syria. Photo: Rowan Griffiths/Daily Mirror, 15 June 2019
The crowd watches as professional wrestlers perform at an EVE all-female wrestling event in London. EVE (EVE) is a British independent women's professional wrestling promotion founded in 2010 incorporating feminism, punk rock, and professional wrestling.
Photo: Neil Hall, 12 August 2017
Lyon players celebrate winning the penalty shoot out against PSG to win the UEFA Women’s Champions League Final in the Cardiff City Stadium. Photo: Kieran McManus, 01 June 2017
Rowan and Jason McCabe have to obey the new 10pm curfew in Glasgow even though were married earlier in the day at Glengoyne Distillery after having their original date in May cancelled because of the lockdown. Photo: Wattie Cheung, 25 September 2020
Julie Hebb (left) and Dolores Buffham moisturise their faces during a “Looking Good Feel Better” class at Maggies Cancer Support Centre in Nottingham City Hospital. Photo: Simon Hulme, 20 May 2014
Young demonstrators hold placards as they attend the "Global Strike 4 Climate" protest march in central London. Many of the hundreds of young people had gone on strike from school as part of a global youth action over climate change. Photo: Tolga Akmen, 15 March 2019
Twelve year old Terri Calvesbert whose mother accidentally set fire to her cot three days before her first birthday in 1998 photographed at home in Ipswich. Photo: Sonja Horsman, 01 October 2008
Shuk Chun Cheung, a cancer survivor and the mother of the photographer makes dumplings at her home in Glasgow. Photo: Wattie Cheung, 12 July 2018
Lauren Cuthbertson as Odette in a dress rehearsal for The Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Photo: Elliott Franks, 04 March 2020
Blacksmith Annabella Bradley uses traditional techniques combined with contemporary design in producing hand forged sculptural and functional wrought ironwork at the Malham Smithy in Yorkshire. Photo: Charlotte Graham, 09 February 2021
Mrs PJ stands steadfast and determined after being attacked by a local racist gang who threw white paint in her face as she left her council flat in Hackney. Photo: David Hoffman, 08 February 1988
Corporal Chloe Fitton, 2 Scots, surrounded by comrades from various regiments taking part in the march to Parliament by 120 Army personnel representing the 51,726 soldiers who deployed last year to more than 55 countries on operations, defence engagement and training. Photo: Pete Maclaine, 10 October, 2018
Fayda Ali Ali is a nurse trained in prosthetics working on the orthopaedic ward in a hospital in the Yemeni government held town of Marib, over 100 miles from the county's capital Sanaa which is in the hands of the Houthi rebels. Photo: Heathcliff O'Malley/The Telegraph, 20 February 2018
A group of girls pose for a group selfie at their prom night in Essex. Photo: Jim Steele, 21 June 2019
Gabrielle Turnquest, was at 18, the youngest person in the history of the English and Welsh legal system to be called to The Bar after passing The University of Law’s Bar Professional Training Course. Lincoln’s Inn, London. Photo: Neil Hall, 30 July 2013
Azella, a homeless woman living in a box in an underground car park in Spitalfields getting ready for a date. The wet crypt at St Botolph Church, Aldgate London, a shelter where users could bring and consume their alcohol and drugs. Photo: David Hoffman, 20 July 1977
Serena Williams playing against Arantxa Rus in the first round of the Ladies Singles on No1 Court during The Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon. Photo: Eddie Mulholland/The Telegraph, 02 July 2018
Five year old Orla Dean holds a placard during the Time’s Up rally opposite the entrance to Downing Street on the first anniversary of first Women's March in London inspired by the Time's Up movement against sexual abuse. Photo: Chris J Ratcliffe, 21 January 2019
Alice Austin has suffered from Alopecia since the age of nine. Since turning thirty she has stopped wearing her wigs and feels free and liberated whilst also being a role model to her young daughter. Nottingham. Photo: Fabio De Paola, 06 January 2020
A firefighter from the Lancashire Fire Service seen whilst tackling the Winterhill bush fires which were started by an arsonist. Photo: Charlotte Graham, 01 July 2018
Carer Lucy Skidmore, who remains on site with six colleagues, talks to her 100-year-old great-grandmother and resident Joan Loosley at the Fremantle Trust care home, amid the outbreak of COVID-19 in Princes Risborough. Eddie Keogh/Reuters, 05 May 2020
A protestor holds her hand in the air to represent their 'five demands' during a pro-democracy demonstration in Central Hong Kong. Photo: Kiran Ridley, 04 October 2019
GMB President Mary Turner embraces Hillsborough Family Support Group campaigners after delivering a moving speech to the annual conference of the GMB trade union. Photo: Andrew Wiard, 08 June 2016
The wedding of Stephanie and Kirsty at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow. Photo: Sandy Young, 07 March 2015
Eighty-five year old Ruth Rose underwent Gender Re-assignment surgery at the age of eighty-one. She runs a group of wild swimmers called The Seaford Mermaids in East Sussex and swims in the sea almost every day. Photo: Fabio de Paola, 19 October 2018
A lady watches water droplets land on her hands inside the Povoado slum in Luanda, Angola. 500 families have relocated to a former waste dump known as Povoado, where two sewage channels flow through their encampment and diseases such as meningitis, tuberculosis and malaria are common. Photo: Luke Dray/Getty Images, 29 January 2020
Lenka Tanner starred in the Kuoni advert “Run on Water” advertising luxury holidays. She has set up her own synchronised swimming team called AquaStars. Born in Slovakia and starting synchronised swimming at 6, she now lives in Nottingham where this picture was taken. Photo by Lucy Ray, 11 March 2015 *This image has been rotated by 180 degrees
Deana Tobias enjoys a kiss from her husband Gareth. The couple have been married for 28 years and are the world’s longest married downs syndrome couple. Photo: Richard Rayner, 26 August 2020
Starting school in an education programme for girls funded by the Qatari charity Education Above All, a class of young Rajasthani girls excitedly begin their very first lessons. Kelwara, India. Photo: Tim Bishop, 04 September 2013
Devotees of Tŷ Krishna Cymru dance on St Mary's Street in Cardiff, celebrating Ratha Yatra, a chariot festival that originated in Jagannatha Puri on the east coast of India. Photo: Matthew Lofthouse, 04 August 2018
Ballet dancers from the Birmingham Royal Ballet prepare to take part in a photocall outside the Royal Albert Hall in London to promote their Christmas production of The Nutcracker. Photo: Richard Pohle/The Times, 27 June 2019
Jayaben Desai, a leader of a small band of strikers fighting the Grunwick film processing company for union recognition, is confronted by senior Police officers outside the company’s premises in Dollis Hill, London. Photo: Andrew Wiard, 13 June 1977
HM Queen Elizabeth II sheds a tear as she attends the annual Remembrance Sunday memorial at The Cenotaph in London. Photo: Samir Hussein, 10 November, 2019
US First Lady Michelle Obama speaks to pupils during a visit to Mulberry school for girls in London. Darren Staples/Reuters, 16 June 2015
Fifteen year old Jessica Long was born in Irkutsk, Siberia with deformed legs and was adopted aged one by her American parents, now she has an incredible 12 World Records and 12 Gold Medals. Photo: Marc Aspland/The Times, 11 May 2007
Nineteen year old Florence Nyiramahirwe seen here with her three year old son Brian William has become a mentor for other young women after being helped to return to education by the charity Hope For Rwanda and hopes to become a broadcast journalist. Mwurire, Rwanda. Photo: Carol Allen Storey, 09 June 2018