An exciting year caught on camera

A tottering tower of books, former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff’s funeral and a group of nuns eating take-out are just a few of the photos featured in this year’s The Times Picture Annual. Running into its seventh series, the annual features 150 photos ranging from news to people, arts, entertainment and quirky images, including some that have never been published. It includes photos taken by both international and The Times’ photographers Jason Borg, Matthew Mirabelli, Chris Sant Fournier, Paul Spiteri Lucas, Mark Zammit Cordina and Darrin Zammit Lupi. In the book’s foreword, former editor and journalist Victor Aquilina outlines the rise and fall of photographic giant Kodak, which made the first mass-produced colour film and cartridge for the instamatic and, with the onslaught of digital media and smart phones, ended up filing for bankruptcy protection in January 2012. Published by Allied Publications, the book is a pick of the best pictures shot for The Times and The Sunday Times covering the period between November 11, 2011 and November 10, 2012. The annual, edited by Mr Zammit Lupi and designed by MediaMaker, is available from Word for Word, Castille Place, Valletta and all...