Kara Milstein

Extremely grateful to every person who shared their time and story with @annieflanagan and @mcarlisle95 . Please take some time to look through the photos and read the story and captions — link in bio. Photographs by @annieflanagan Text by @mcarlisle95 Design by @jrprandato

A hazardous chemical accident takes place almost every day in the United States. The worst in recent history occurred a year ago, when a train carrying toxic substances crashed and burned in a small Ohio town. Photographer @rebecca_kiger spent a year documenting the aftermath in East Palestine. Robin Seman and her kids, featured on the cover, are one of the families I grew so fond of through Rebecca’s photographs throughout the year. Robin turned this situation into a lesson for her kids. “We have to know we’re living here safely. Life is not a spectator sport.” There aren’t enough words to explain the gratitude I feel toward @rebecca_kiger and the community of East Palestine, letting Rebecca into their homes, businesses, schools, festivals, parks, protests, community meetings, and everywhere in between. Rebecca’s care shines through every single photograph. From the first folder of photos I saw to every conversation we had, working with Rebecca on this story meant the world to me. It is rare these days that we get the opportunity to spend a year with a community, and Rebecca made sure to show every angle possible. Huge thank you to Alejandro de la Garza for taking on reporting out this story, weaving together scientific data and anecdotal stories in this deep dive to get at the importance of following through on the fallout of these accidents. And in two different versions between the print magazine and digital longform! Endless thank you to @katattack42 for your unwavering support and guidance throughout this project. Thank you to the Center for Contemporary Documentation for making this year-long project possible, and to Alice Gabriner for your support. Please take the time to look at and read this project, both in print and digitally (desktop!). It’s a special one.

Beyond excited to be able to share more of @rebecca_kiger ’s incredible photographs with the East Palestine community. Opening March 26. Folks in the area, hope you can join us at the @epmpl ! Opens at 6pm, panel discussion at 6:30pm.

Skateboarding shaped Tyre Nichols. The sport provided an athletic outlet, helped him forge friendships, and ignited a passion for filming the exploits of other skaters, writes @sgregory31 . Nichols died on Jan. 10, 2023, three days after he was pulled over for a traffic stop and attacked by police. Today, three former officers were acquitted of all state charges in Nichols’s death. In the weeks following Nichols’s death, skateboarders, in general a tight-knit bunch, held vigils for Nichols at skate parks in Memphis, Sacramento—Nichols’ hometown—and Portland, Ore. @markthomasdillon photographed a vigil at Regency Community Skatepark, one of the places Nichols used to skate in Sacramento, Calif. on Jan. 30, 2023 for @time

TIME Kid of the Year: Heman Bekele. The 15-year-old invented a soap that could one day treat, and event prevent, some skin cancers. Photographed by the brilliantly creative @dina_litovsky for TIME 🫧🧪 Many thanks to @dina_litovsky @dilysng @katattack42 @justingellerson M

this weekend was so supportive and healing, feeling incredibly grateful for the folks behind and attending @eddieadamsworkshop

weeee hosting this today, info @agatheringofsorts , future gatherings to come 🧡 flyer by @lauurrel

last night was so special! we shared 100 photos and dozens of covers from the last 25 years of @time ’s archive. big big gratitude to @katattack42 and @dilysng for being on board with this big endeavor to dig through and sum up the past 25 years of incredible @time photography. couldn’t have done it without @realjosephlautrup who wizarded the final video we shared with you all last night. and of course @photoville for providing such an incredible space for this community that we’re all so lucky to be a part of. and last but not least, all of the photographers and editors who have given so much to make this work. as @katattack42 wrote and I said last night: to the photographers who have risen to the challenge, who have risked it all, who have sacrificed more than we’ll ever know to show us the world, we thank you. be sure to check out the far from home banner, brilliance by @sangsuk.jpg

A few portraits for @time ’s Next Generation Leaders @khaby00 by @glaucocanalis @leeyoum262 by @hongjanghyun @dariakolomiec_ by @ok__mccausland @maxwellfrostfl by @dvnchrstphr

friends + dogs + an always lovely weekend in vermont

oh how I miss you already

TIME’s Women of the Year 2022 Midwife and maternal health educator Jennie Joseph photographed by @myeshaevongardner “There’s the calling to midwifery. It’s been my entire life,” she says. “Because you cannot stand by and tolerate injustice. Not when you’ve found ways that do actually make a difference.” In the first frame: Joseph meets with patient Amanda Drummond. Third frame: Drummond with her daughter Aria in one of Joseph’s two birthing rooms. Huge thank you to @myeshaevongardner for bringing your touch to this story. Story by @abbyabrams5 Video by @francescatrianni @arpane @anne_most