The week's best photojournalism
In the week's most striking images, Charlottesville mourns, pigs exercise, and more
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Kelly Gonsalves
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Community members hold a vigil for Heather Heyer following the deadly white nationalist protest on Aug. 19 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
(Image credit: (Courtesy Tim Dodson/The Cavalier Daily/Handout via REUTERS))

A balloon flies over Bristol during the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in southwest England.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Hannah McKay))

Pigs are herded off a platform into water during a daily exercise at a pig farm in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS))

A woman dives in the Verzasca River in the Valle Verzasca, Switzerland.
(Image credit: (EPA/PABLO GIANINAZZI))

A Palestinian woman holds her daughter as they wait for a travel permit to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa))

A laborer rests over a pile of recyclables in Peshawar, Pakistan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz))

Assumption Day procession in Bavaria, Germany.
(Image credit: (EPA/LUKAS BARTH-TUTTAS))

Indonesian men climb a greased pole during celebrations to mark the 72nd anniversary of Indonesia's independence in Medan.
(Image credit: (EPA/DEDI SINUHAJI))

A monument of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney is removed from outside the Maryland State House in Annapolis.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana))

A cadet undergoes guerrilla training on a mountain in Yeongcheon, South Korea.
(Image credit: (EPA/YONHAP))

Festival goers participate in a color party at the 25th Sziget Festival on Shipyard Island, Northern Budapest, Hungary.
(Image credit: (EPA/Balazs Mohai))

Female students attend their graduation ceremony in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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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.