The week's best photojournalism

In the week's most compelling images, Death Valley blooms, astronaut Scott Kelly floats safely to Earth, and more

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Tourists take picture of wildflowers near Badwater Basin in Death Valley, Calif.
(Image credit: The Associated Press)
Voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Qom, Iran.
(Image credit: (Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz))

Death Valley National Park enjoys a rare "super bloom" of wildflowers.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong))

A Soyuz capsule carrying U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Mikhail Korniyenko descends back to Earth over Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool))

A woman stands among the ruins of damaged buildings in Cizre, Turkey.
(Image credit: (YASIN AKGUL/AFP/Getty Images))

A farmer sleeps at the International Agricultural Show in Paris.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Benoit Tessier))

A spring horse racing event in Tsagaan Khutul, Mongolia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Rentsendorj Bazarsukh))

Tents of refugees and migrants at the Greek-Macedonian border, near Idomeni, Greece.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Eldar Emric))

A flag-raising ceremony at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Damir Sagol))

Supporters cheer at a campaign rally for Bernie Sanders in East Lansing, Michigan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jim Young))

The sun sets behind the Statue of Liberty in New York's Harbor.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid))

Chickens sit atop a cage at a roadside meat vendor in New Delhi, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Adnan Abidi))

Air-conditioning units dot the facade of the People's Park Complex residential apartment in Singapore's Chinatown.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Edgar Su))

Indigenous Sahrawi girls hug each other next to their school in a refugee camp in Tindouf, Algeria.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)**See last week's best photojournalism**)

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.