The week's best photojournalism

In the week's most striking images, an Afghan woman surveys a barren scene, Chinese officers take a muddy dive, and more

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An Afghan woman walks past at a local brick factory as she carries her son, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Two women embrace while looking at a police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina, during a protest of the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Jason Miczek))

An Afghan woman carrying her son walks past a local brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul))

Paramilitary policemen take part in a drill in Baise, China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/China Daily))

Mahouts guide forest department elephants to demolish houses outside the Kaziranga National Park in northeastern Assam state, India.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Anupam Nath))

Ludmila Ezhova, 80, who is unable to travel to her nearest polling station, prepares to cast her ballot for the parliamentary elections remotely, in Moscow.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin))

A lion rests in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic))

Dawoodi Bohra Muslims are reflected in the rear mirror of a parked scooter as they walk past the site of an under-construction mosque in Mumbai.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui))

(Image credit: The Associated Press)

The cast and crew from Veep, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, accept the award for outstanding comedy series at the Emmys in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

A man brings his buffaloes back home in Kandal province, Cambodia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Samrang Pring))

A sniper fires towards Islamic State militant positions in Sirte, Libya.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Manu Brabo))

A man spins children on a homemade merry-go-round in a vacant lot in Peshawar, Pakistan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz)**See last week's best photojournalism.**)

Jackie Friedman
Jackie Friedman

Jackie Friedman is the assistant photo editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the photojournalism program at Kent State University and now lives in New York.