The best Globe photos of 2025

Boston Globe photographers share the stories behind their most unforgettable images of the past year. A double rainbow at Fenway Park, Karen Read’s smile outside Norfolk County Superior Court, the scene in a family’s kitchen after their father was taken into ICE custody — stories are made here. 

PERSPECTIVE

How to build a family

The Globe’s Samantha J. Gross is part of a community of friends who act like family. “We never have to worry about finding a cat sitter, a ride to the airport, or someone to shop for new glasses with,” she writes. “Our lives are made richer by the support system we’ve built for one another. And it’s a lesson I think many of my peers — thirtysomethings trying to make it in Boston — could learn.” 

CONNECTIONS

Peanuts therapy

There are only two therapists Andy Levinsky has taken advice from: his mom and Lucy Van Pelt. Charlie Brown: I have deep feelings of depression. What can I do about this? Lucy: Snap out of it! Five cents, please. “I’ve been trying to snap out of ‘it’ almost since I emerged from the womb,” Levinsky writes. As a kid several notches less popular than Charlie Brown, he never realized just how close to home this pitch-black perspective hit. Then as a teenager, Peanuts was his goth stage. 

MISS CONDUCT CLASSICS

Showstopper
How do you handle sitting near a chatterbox child at the theater? Miss Conduct shares her tips.

LOVE LETTERS

Oh, man
One writer says their friends talk nonstop about men. Can Meredith suggest how to get them to stop?  

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DINNER WITH CUPID

“His side profile made me notice a new (and attractive!) angle.” Will this date be all that and a bag of chips? 

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