The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, Hurricane Matthew wreaks havoc, a Hindu artisan conjures a demon king, and more

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A woman walks on a highway blocked by rocks after the passage of hurricane Matthew on the coast of Guantanamo, Cuba.
A woman walks on a highway littered with massive rocks — damage from Hurricane Matthew — on the coast of Guantanamo, Cuba.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini))

An artisan applies final touches to an effigy of the demon king Ravana in preparation for the upcoming Hindu festival of Dussehra in Jammu, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta))

Goats wait to get unloaded from a vehicle at a livestock market in Kathmandu, Nepal.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar))

Children who fled from Islamic State-controlled areas ride to the northern Syrian rebel-held town of al-Rai.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi))

Village women collect fodder for their cattle in Pallanwal, India.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Channi Anand))

Hurricane Matthew batters Les Cayes, Haiti.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares))

Women wearing traditional Hungarian attire vote on a referendum on EU migrant quotas in Veresegyhaz, Hungary.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo))

Russian President Vladimir Putin is put to work at a reserve for wild horses near the Urals city of Orenburg, Russia.
(Image credit: (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP))

A Canadian Sphynx cat is held by a judge during a feline beauty competition in Bucharest, Romania.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru))

Children ride mechanical robots at a park in Beijing.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan))

Catfish gather in the corner of the Gundalao lake as they wait to be fed by onlookers in Kishangarh, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Himanshu Sharma))

Priests take part in a deity's procession as part of the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar)**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.