Photographers reveal the stories behind 2015's most powerful pictures

Whether experiencing a terrorist attack in Paris or fleeing war or political violence in Syria and Myanmar, 2015 was a tragic year for millions of people around the world.

Photojournalists work ceaselessly to capture these events and their effects on individuals, and photographers for Reuters were always on the scene, taking some of the year's most newsworthy and captivating photos.

But most of the time, we don't get the full story behind the photo; how it came to be and what the photographer had to do to capture that moment.

Here, a number of Reuters photographers reveal the stories behind some of 2015's most important pictures.

A note of warning: some of these photos feature scenes of injury or death.

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