10 heartwarming photo stories about community from 2025

In a year when policy, borders, and even algorithms seemed intent on keeping us apart, togetherness became a necessity. Throughout 2025, people found ways to gather – in packed-out barbershops, on strobing dance floors, and beneath the tents of raucous travelling circuses.

While the word “community” has been diluted, its meaning still lives in the act of showing up for one another. Many of the photo stories below trace communities forged under pressure – diasporic, queer,hellip;