The week's best photojournalism
Pope Francis and Pope Francis, Olympic feats, and more
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Jacob Lambert
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Figure skater Kaori Sakamoto competes in Beijing.
(Image credit: WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images)

A women's skeleton competitor trains in Beijing.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Snowboarders train in Zhangjiakou, China.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Mike Blake)

A freestyle skier competes in Beijing.
(Image credit: MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Skateboarders ride past a man on the sidewalk in Los Angeles.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

A cow sits on an empty beach near Barbate, Spain.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

The inside of a home following a mudslide in Quito, Ecuador.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Men skating on a frozen lake in Stockholm.
(Image credit: JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

The Czech Republic women's hockey team huddles before a game in Beijing.
(Image credit: ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

A soldier stands at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier in Moscow.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

A carnival figure at a warehouse in Nice, France.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Pope Francis looks at a figurine of himself during a general audience at the Vatican.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane)
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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.