The week's best photojournalism
A flock of starlings, a desert race, and more
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Jacob Lambert
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People take part in the Els Enfarinats festival near Alicante, Spain.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

A bride has makeup applied during her wedding ceremony in Ribnovo, Bulgaria.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov)

A woman and child seek alms on a bridge in Kabul.
(Image credit: MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)

People balance atop bamboo ladders in Tokyo.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Issei Kato)

A man looks down from a diving tower in Galway, Ireland.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne)

Jorge Arreaza holds up a saber at a campaign rally in Barinas, Venezuela.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

An Orthodox priest throws a crucifix during Epiphany Day celebrations in Zygi, Cyprus.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou)

A ski jumper competes in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach)

A man runs along a flooded bike path in Mill Valley, California.
(Image credit: JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

A motorcyclist races near Al Qaisumah, Saudi Arabia.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed)

A national park in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Ali Khara)

A murmuration of starlings above Rome.
(Image credit: TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)
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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.