The week's best photojournalism

In this week's most striking images, an astronaut statue looms in the Netherlands, horses trick the eye in Nepal, and more

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Horses rest in a stable in Kathmandu, Nepal.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha))

A woman works at an aviation plant in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Sergey Pivovarov))

A sanitary worker sprays pesticide at an amusement park near Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin))

Municipal workers clean a monument in Moscow, Russia.
(Image credit: (SERGEI ILNITSKY/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock))

An inflatable statue in Sassenheim, Netherlands.
(Image credit: (LEX VAN LIESHOUT/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock))

A statue is lowered from atop Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France.
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Francois Mori))

An oversized doll representing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv.
(Image credit: (ABIR SULTAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock))

A visitor at a perspective-bending installation in Milan, Italy.
(Image credit: (Daniel Dal Zennaro/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock))

A visitor at a mirrored exhibition in Barcelona, Spain.
(Image credit: (Quique Garcia/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock))

An escalator in Brussels, Belgium.
(Image credit: (STEPHANIE LECOCQ/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock))

Flower fields near Amsterdam.
(Image credit: (Peter Dejong/AP/Shutterstock))

A man behind Indonesia's national flag in Jakarta.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan)**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.