The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, a whale washes up on a New York beach, a kite festival gets underway in France, and more

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Striking images from around the world.
People gather around a dead humpback whale that washed up on a beach in New York.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson))

A mass marriage ceremony in Bhopal, India.
(Image credit: (EPA/SANJEEV GUPTA))

The 31st International Kite Festival in Berck, northern France.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Thibault Camus))

A camel stands in a flooded paddock after Cyclone Debbie near Rockhampton, Australia.
(Image credit: (AAP/Dan Peled/via REUTERS))

Construction workers eat lunch in front of a billboard in Beijing.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan))

A woman walks in a neighborhood recently retaken by Iraqi security in west Mosul, Iraq.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Felipe Dana))

Flooding in Milagro, Ecuador.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Henry Romero))

A family displaced by fighting in South Sudan rests in Lamwo in northern Uganda.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/James Akena))

A boy herds his goats in al-Baragel, Egypt.
(Image credit: (EPA/MOHAMED HOSSAM))

A 650-foot-long arcade of lavender in Shenyang, Liaoning province, northeast China.
(Image credit: (EPA))

Russian Orthodox members release birds at Annunciation Cathedral in Moscow's Kremlin.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko))

Rickshaws in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain)**See last week's best photojournalism**)

Kelly Gonsalves
Kelly Gonsalves

Kelly Gonsalves is a sex and culture writer exploring love, lust, identity, and feminism. Her work has appeared at Bustle, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and more, and she previously worked as an associate editor for The Week. She's obsessed with badass ladies doing badass things, wellness movements, and very bad rom-coms.