The week's best photojournalism

In this week's most striking images, a man holds a face in Japan, Van Gogh glides over Mexico, and more

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President Osamu Kitagawa holds a super-realistic face mask at his factory in Otsu, western Japan.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Kwiyeon Ha)
A boy on a skywalk in Bangkok.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun))

Over 125,000 postcards assembled together on Switzerland's Aletsch glacier.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/VALENTIN FLAURAUD))

A street in Hanoi.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/LUONG THAI LINH))

A Vincent van Gogh-shaped hot air balloon glides over Leon, Mexico.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/Mario Armas))

Osamu Kitagawa holds a super-realistic face mask at his factory in Otsu, Japan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Kwiyeon Ha))

A dog gets groomed in Poznan, Poland.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/Jakub Kaczmarczyk))

A child and a medical student "operate" on a teddy bear in Lausanne, Switzerland.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT))

An archaeologist works on a fresco in Pompeii.
(Image credit: (EPA-EFE/CESARE ABBATE))

Performers in traditional dress pass through a security screening in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein))

A woman checks crabs at a breeding farm in Huaian, China.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Stringer))

A protester throws a chair at riot police in Athens.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis))

A rocket launches from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
(Image credit: (Courtesy Joel Kowsky/NASA/Handout)**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.