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'Capturing the Year in an Instant' by Overheard at Nat Geo

The perfect way to revisit the past year

National Geographic’s director of visuals and immersive experiences Whitney Johnson, along with editor-at-large Peter Gwin and Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario hosted the newest episode of the Overheard at National Geographic podcast, titled Capturing the Year in an Instant. The year-ender podcast sifted through some of the most crucial moments of 2021 through the lens of Nat Geo photographers as Johnson works on the Year in Pictures special issue for the publication.

“So we landed on these sort of four themes that we were going to explore: COVID, conflict, climate, and then also conservation,” Johnson reveals. In the past year National Geographic sent photographers on more than 300 assignments from Afghanistan to the Andes Mountains and the Kalahari Desert, and the podcast addresses some of the most important moments, from the year gone by, from the devastating pandemic to the California wildfires.