Picture of the Year 2022 was the seventeenth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons image competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons.
Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons (FP) during the year 2022, to produce a single Picture of the Year.
Second place: Banna children in Ethiopia with traditional body painting, playing on wooden stilts. Attribution: WAVRIK(CC-BY-SA 4.0) 299 votes
Third place: Young stars form in 'The Pillars of Creation' as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared camera Attribution: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; image processing by Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI) (public domain) 292 votes