The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, a teenager catches a wave before school, musicians take a break between sets, and more

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(Image credit: (REUTERS))
A worker paints a wall outside a house in Jodhpur, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Adnan Abidi))

Kashmiri women carry cow dung, to be used as fertilizer, past a mustard field on the outskirts of Srinagar.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Dar Yasin))

German shepherds take a quick rest during a special search-training course at a police center, in Russia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin))

Kieran Walls, 13, surfs before school off of Hermosa Beach, California.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson))

An employee loads firecrackers into a container at a factory in Kimbulapitiya, Sri Lanka.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte))

Groundskeepers make their way up the seventh fairway, ahead of the 2015 Masters at the Augusta National Golf Course, in Georgia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jim Young))

Girls who survived what activists say was a ground-to-ground missile attack by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad hold hands in Aleppo's Bab al-Hadeed district.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail))

A vehicle partially submerged in dry mud sits abandoned in an area of Chile that was hit by heavy flooding at the end of March.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado))

Members of a music band rest before participating in the procession of "Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem" in Constancia, Portugal.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Rafael Marchante))

Young fans watch the Los Angeles Dodgers warm up for an exhibition baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Anaheim, California.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong))

A snow-covered tree is seen on a sunny spring day, in the western Austrian village of Absam.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler))

A racehorse begins to lose consciousness after being administered an anesthetic, at Veliefendi equine hospital, in Istanbul.
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Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.