Nothing was easy about 2020—including putting together a magazine and website, least of all coordinating photo shoots which on the best of days is a complicated logistics problem. But there was magic to made (and a luxury-tone deaf line to be walked), and Bloomberg Pursuits’s team of talented photographers did it with social-distanced aplomb. They shot images that were not only beautiful, communicating aspiration and overall luxe-ness, but also inclusive and considered in this unprecedented year.
Pursuits photo editors Leonor Mamanna and Evan Ortiz have picked some of their favorite commissioned photography from the past 12 months and listed reasons it all made the cut.