The week's best photojournalism

In this week's most striking images, a gorilla eats dessert, a surfer gets tossed, and more

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A French gendarme holds his mud-splattered shield during an evacuation operation in the zoned ZAD (Deferred Development Zone) in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, near Nantes, France
An asparagus farm in Brandenburg, Germany.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/HAYOUNG JEON))

Runners pass by the Obelisk on Place de la Concorde during the Paris Marathon.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/IAN LANGSDON))

An acrobat is launched in the air in front of the London Eye.
(Image credit: (Rick Findler/REX/Shutterstock))

Wildcard Jack Robinson competes in the Margaret River Pro in western Australia.
(Image credit: (Kelly Cestari/WSL/REX/Shutterstock))

Padel player Franco Stupaczuk reacts during the men's World Padel Tour in Alicante, Spain.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/Manuel Lorenzo))

Fatou the gorilla eats a slice of cake on her 61st birthday at the Berlin Zoological Garden.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/OMER MESSINGER))

A French gendarme holds his shield during an evacuation operation in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Stephane Mahe))

Filip Stevic, 16, creates a sculpture from the tip of a graphite pencil in Smederevo, Serbia.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/ANDREJ CUKIC))

The statue of St. Peter towers over prelates during a Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia))

Bicycles sit in a vacant lot in Wuhan, China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Stringer))

A wholesale flower market in Bengaluru, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Abhishek N. Chinnappa))

The sun sets behind a tree near Mezopeterd, Hungary.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/Zsolt Czegledi HUNGARY OUT)**See last week's best photojournalism**)

Jacob Lambert
Jacob Lambert

Jacob Lambert is the art director of TheWeek.com. He was previously an editor at MAD magazine, and has written and illustrated for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly, and The Millions.